“The Garifuna Teachers” of Belize: Legacy and Appropriations of a Historical Colonial Category in Nation-building Context

 

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Autor: Ramírez Romero, Aïda
Formato: artículo original
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de Publicación:2023
Descripción:This paper reflects, from the case of the Garifuna Teachers in Belize, on the legacy and appropriation of identification categories, constructed during colonial times and rearticulated in a national context. Seeing identity as a social construction, discursive and situated, the paper analyzes firstly, specific case studies, how ethno-racial categories were discursively constructed and reproduced in colonial education context, and then, how they are appropriated by contemporaneous actors who crystalize the identity of the Garifuna group. The text is produced from historical literature on Belize and education, colonial archives produced in Belize at the beginning of the 20th century, collected in London (Kew), and interviews conducted in Belize, during 2017 and 2021. The article shows that differences continue to be constructed, in diverse ways, through ethno-racial distinctions in order to integrate the Garifuna identity in representations of Belize as a multicultural nation.
País:Portal de Revistas UCR
Institución:Universidad de Costa Rica
Repositorio:Portal de Revistas UCR
Lenguaje:Español
OAI Identifier:oai:portal.ucr.ac.cr:article/56391
Acceso en línea:https://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/intercambio/article/view/56391
Palabra clave:Identity
colonial education
racialization
ethnopolitical appropriations
multicultural nation
Identidad
Educación colonial
racialización
apropiaciones etnopoliticas
nación multicultural
Identidade
educação colonial
racialização
apropriações etnopolíticas
nação multicultural