Abstract

WADE, Peter. Trabajando la Cultura: sobre la construcción de la identidad negra en Aguablanca, Cali. CS [online]. 2008, n.2, pp.13-50. ISSN 2011-0324.  https://doi.org/10.18046/recs.i2.410.

The dualism in social science between practice and discourse has begun to be questioned, amongst others, by perspectives that are trying to overcome the division between culture and politics. This questioning can be supported by an examination of the tension between culture as a human activity of presence in the world, in which there is a unification of the material and symbolic, and culture as a manufactured object in the context of hegemonic constructions of culture. This article analyzes this tension in relation to the activities of black youths in Aguablanca, Cali, who use rap to create a cultural identity as a way of life and at the same time create their culture as an object designed to facilitate their presence in the market, the state and the NGOs. The local state and the voluntary sector also work on culture as more limited set of expressions, seeking to depoliticize it.

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