‘We entered as blacks and we left as Afro-descendants’: tracing the path to affirmative action in Uruguay

Erica Townsend-Bell
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ABSTRACT The path to successful passage of affirmative action legislation is quite narrow in Latin America, and has been especially challenging for black populations that cannot make territorial or exclusive cultural claims. Yet Uruguay, like Brazil, bucked these trends, coming to the position that racism is a problem about which something should be done. The passage of race-specific, national affirmative action legislation was the determined remedy, the first of its kind in any Latin American country. What explains this outcome? I trace the logic of argumentation that led from successful introduction to unanimous passage, finding that the path to legitimacy convened on three approaches. The argument positioned affirmative action as a form of reparation, designated it for a group whose existence as a conceptually identifiable and discrete population was not in question, and limited its temporal scope. This article contributes an analysis of the Uruguayan case, and outlines an alternative path to affirmative action in a region where such legislation remains uncommon. It speaks to the theoretical question of where, and under what conditions, specific group rights for an Afro-Latin population can accrue, and antipathy to racial recognition and treatment of inequity might be superseded.
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“我们以黑人身份进入,以非洲后裔身份离开”:追踪乌拉圭平权行动的道路
摘要在拉丁美洲,成功通过平权法案的道路相当狭窄,对于那些无法提出领土或专属文化主张的黑人来说,这尤其具有挑战性。然而,乌拉圭和巴西一样,与这些趋势背道而驰,认为种族主义是一个需要采取措施的问题。通过针对特定种族的国家平权行动立法是一种坚定的补救措施,在任何拉丁美洲国家都是第一种。是什么解释了这种结果?我追溯了从成功引入到一致通过的论证逻辑,发现通往合法性的道路有三种途径。该论点将平权行动定位为一种赔偿形式,将其指定给一个群体,该群体作为一个概念上可识别和离散的群体的存在是没有问题的,并限制了其时间范围。这篇文章分析了乌拉圭的案件,并概述了在一个此类立法仍然不常见的地区采取平权行动的替代途径。它谈到了一个理论问题,即非裔拉丁人在哪里以及在什么条件下可以获得特定的群体权利,对种族承认和不平等待遇的反感可能会被取代。
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Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
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