Location of the Black Communities in Colombia: the Absence of the Insular Afro-Caribbean.Location of the Black Communities in Colombia: the Absence of the Insular Afro-Caribbean

Abstract

The predominance of a ethno-territorial model from the experience of the “Present Pacific”
in the recognition model proposed by the Law 70 of 1993, or the Law of black African
descendant communities, has acted as a referent in the history and memory of the organizational
and mobilization processes of black population in the country. In this sense,
facing the predominance of a Pacific referent in the memory of the afro mobilization, this
article seeks to present some of the voids in afrocolombian studies from two situations:
1) the void of what is afro-caribbean in the process of colombian national formation and
b) the emptiness of the mobilization of the native population of the archipelago of San
2ndrés, Providencia and Santa Catalina as part of the history of mobilization of black
communities in the country.