Identity implies a review, a discussion and the existence of certain symbolic factors reaching across the whole region – with all the implications that this discourse and this symbolism bring with them in terms of actions and collective activity programmes.   Claudio Chipana   A lot of emphasis has been […]

The racist comments of a football commentator in a Peruvian television programme, once more, places the reoccurring theme of racism and football at centre stage. More specifically, the constant racist abuse against football players of colour or of African descent.   Claudio Chipana Gutiérrez   These racist abuses aren’t limited […]

“We are neither Indian, nor European, but a species lying somewhere in between the legitimate owners of the land and the Spanish usurpers…” Simon Bolivar (Letter from Jamaica). –  Claudio Chipana – People of mixed heritage, mestizos, are a challenge to racial purity and the idea of a monolithic nation. […]

Proposals like the plurinational state in Evo Morales’ Bolivia and the incorporation of elements of the indigenous world-view like ‘sumac causay‘ (good living) in Latin American political discourse, marks a shift toward political multiculturalism in Latin America.    .Claudio Chipana G. . Multicultural reality is nothing new, it not a […]