Juan José Nieto Gil, artistic practices and the genealogy of coloniality in Colombia

IF 0.6 Q4 ETHNIC STUDIES
Ada Margarita Ariza Aguilar
{"title":"Juan José Nieto Gil, artistic practices and the genealogy of coloniality in Colombia","authors":"Ada Margarita Ariza Aguilar","doi":"10.1080/17442222.2022.2144198","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT As an artistic intervention, the exhibit ¿Suficientemente Negro? (Black Enough?) critically examines ‘whiteness’ and ‘racialization’ in Colombia. With the purpose of analyzing their impact on the figure of President Juan José Nieto Gil (1804–1866), this exhibit and consequently this article reveal the colonial cultural constructions that worked to whiten, conceal, and erase his image and legacy from Colombia’s official history because of his ethno-racial, social, and geographic origins. The artistic approach adopted proved relevant to better understand the weight of the colonial matrix of power in the present and across the various aspects of daily life. I uncover the relationship between race and nation in Colombia as constructed by the Creole elites and intellectuals around the turn of the 20th century. I center the history of the presidential portrait of Nieto Gil within Colombia’s racial hierarchy and the ideas around whiteness that characterize the colonial period. As racial ideas remain steadfast in the biographical and genealogical trajectories of many families in Colombia, I show how Nieto Gil’s legacy and erasure overlaps with my own family’s history. I describe a collaborative artistic project that interrogates the social constructions of whiteness.","PeriodicalId":35038,"journal":{"name":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","volume":"18 1","pages":"345 - 357"},"PeriodicalIF":0.6000,"publicationDate":"2023-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/17442222.2022.2144198","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q4","JCRName":"ETHNIC STUDIES","Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0

Abstract

ABSTRACT As an artistic intervention, the exhibit ¿Suficientemente Negro? (Black Enough?) critically examines ‘whiteness’ and ‘racialization’ in Colombia. With the purpose of analyzing their impact on the figure of President Juan José Nieto Gil (1804–1866), this exhibit and consequently this article reveal the colonial cultural constructions that worked to whiten, conceal, and erase his image and legacy from Colombia’s official history because of his ethno-racial, social, and geographic origins. The artistic approach adopted proved relevant to better understand the weight of the colonial matrix of power in the present and across the various aspects of daily life. I uncover the relationship between race and nation in Colombia as constructed by the Creole elites and intellectuals around the turn of the 20th century. I center the history of the presidential portrait of Nieto Gil within Colombia’s racial hierarchy and the ideas around whiteness that characterize the colonial period. As racial ideas remain steadfast in the biographical and genealogical trajectories of many families in Colombia, I show how Nieto Gil’s legacy and erasure overlaps with my own family’s history. I describe a collaborative artistic project that interrogates the social constructions of whiteness.
胡安·约瑟·涅托·吉尔,哥伦比亚的艺术实践和殖民宗谱
作为一种艺术干预,展览“足够的黑人?(Black Enough?)批判性地审视了哥伦比亚的“白人化”和“种族化”。为了分析这些因素对总统胡安·何塞·涅托·吉尔(Juan joss Nieto Gil, 1804-1866)形象的影响,本次展览和本文揭示了殖民文化建构,这些文化建构由于涅托的民族、种族、社会和地理出身,将涅托的形象和遗产从哥伦比亚官方历史中粉饰、掩盖和抹去。所采用的艺术方法被证明是相关的,可以更好地理解殖民权力矩阵在当前和日常生活的各个方面的重要性。我揭示了哥伦比亚种族与国家之间的关系,这是由克里奥尔精英和知识分子在20世纪之交建立起来的。我将涅托·吉尔(Nieto Gil)总统肖像的历史置于哥伦比亚的种族等级制度和殖民时期特有的白人观念之中。由于种族观念在哥伦比亚许多家庭的传记和家谱轨迹中仍然根深蒂固,我展示了涅托·吉尔的遗产和抹去与我自己家族的历史是如何重叠的。我描述了一个合作的艺术项目,它质疑白人的社会结构。
本文章由计算机程序翻译,如有差异,请以英文原文为准。
求助全文
约1分钟内获得全文 求助全文
来源期刊
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Social Sciences-Cultural Studies
CiteScore
1.30
自引率
16.70%
发文量
22
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
确定
请完成安全验证×
copy
已复制链接
快去分享给好友吧!
我知道了
右上角分享
点击右上角分享
0
联系我们:info@booksci.cn Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。 Copyright © 2023 布克学术 All rights reserved.
京ICP备2023020795号-1
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术官方微信