Elementos “educativos culturales” y políticos que configuran las identidades de los maestros e investigadores líderes de la cátedra de estudios afrocolombianos en Bogotá. (Los casos de maestros de la red elegguá)

Abstract

The following document investigates the political perspectives and “cultural educational” elements that shape the identities of the leaders of the “RED ELEGGUÁ”. This network was born in 2007 as an initiative of teachers and researchers concerned with the professorship of Afro-Colombian studies and Afro-ethno-educational processes at the national level; therefore, they have had a track record in training teachers and students from an Afro-Colombian perspective. In this sense, the interest is to make known the Afro subjects and intellectuals who are part of this network and the reason for their connection to it. In the course of the research, bibliographic reviews were conducted on the Afro-Colombian social movement, ethnoeducation, chair of Afro-Colombian studies, the concept of identities, etc .; and then proceeded with participant observations, preliminary informal conversations, until constructing the anthropological interview that allowed covering the main identity traits of these leaders. This topic arose from the reflections in the "Stereotypes and Black Absences" (SEAN) hotbed of the faculty of sociology of the Santo Tomás University, where the problem of absence, stereotypy and myths in which they are found were constantly addressed. subaltern groups, especially Afro-Colombians. To carry out this work, social research with an ethnomethodological approach was used, which guided the steps of a qualitative methodology of a descriptive-interpretative nature.