Ciudadanías escindidas. Narrativas sobre la configuración del ciudadano en las constituciones políticas colombianas del siglo XIX

Abstract

After the independence of the New Granada, the disposition of a new type of more liberal and comprehensive society was not without its setbacks, as a result of the deep-seated mentality of the elite sectors -even those of the non-elite- of devaluing representations of the indigenous, the black, the mestizo and the whole variety of "pardos", inherited from the system of colonial rule. We will continue to look at them as beings of lower categories, who hindered the new ideal of society. Later, when Colombia was established in its various forms of state-centralist or federal-the notion of citizen did not lead to the achievement of civil rights that were fought over during the wars of independence. On the contrary, it was a discursive creation conceived and accommodated in the numerous social and military disputes of the nineteenth century, without any real anchoring in liberal values and principles.