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Rossana Barragán Romano is professor emeritus at the Universidad Mayor de San Andres. She has been director of the Archives of La Paz, Universidad Mayor de San Andrés and director of the journal T'inkazos, Revista en Ciencias Sociales de Bolivia and Director of the Latin American Desk at the International Institute for Social History and researcher at the same institute (IISG Amsterdam).
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Alberto Javier Olvera Rivera is a researcher at the Instituto de Investigaciones Histórico-Sociales of the Universidad Veracruzana since 1981. He is member of the National System of Researchers Level III, and of the Mexican Academy of Science. His lines of research are: Theories of Civil Society and Democratic Innovation, and Social Movements and Models of Society-State Relationship in Mexico and Latin America. He also studies the institutions and practices of the justice system and subnational authoritarianism in Mexico.
Valeria Manzano holds a PhD in history. She is a researcher at the National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET) of Argentina and a professor at the Interdisciplinary School of Higher Social Studies at Universidad Nacional San Martín, where she currently directs the PhD in History.
This essay is an extended inquiry into the dynamics of development and resistance unleashed by the advances of extractivism, a form of capitalism characterized by a multidimensional crisis of global scope. Extractivism takes many forms, but the epicenter of extractivism in its most recent incarnation is Latin America. The region has been the main target of its negative socioecological impacts, but also the setting of the most powerful forces of resistance.
Addressing the existence of a black middle class in Colombia is not only difficult but an apparent contradiction, an oxymoron, because black people are inevitably imagined as poor and "lower class". But are there not other class experiences within this population? In order to respond to the research gap on this social group, this essay examines the configuration of the black middle classes since the late 1930s, based on life histories of members of three generations of families from the Pacific and Caribbean region who identify themselves as part of this class.
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