2011
DOI: 10.1163/157181111x565693
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Inclusion of Afro-Descendents in Ethnic Data Collection: Towards Visibility

Abstract: Afro-descendant civil society organisations in Latin America have pursued an important strand of advocacy on reforming national censuses. Th e aim has been to increase the 'visibility' of Afrodescendant populations through disaggregated data and thus to improve recognition of their distinct identity. Brazil is leading the way on such data collection while other countries are taking fi rst steps, like Argentina and Chile. International organisations have off ered support in these eff orts, including development… Show more

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“…This has generally lead to the invisibility of ethnic minorities, mostly Afro-descendants and indigenous people, in modern statistics all over the region (with the outstanding exception of Brazil), although the situation is changing rapidly due to increasing concern about making minorities visible as a first step to recognize the diversity and overcome discrimination. Antón and Del Popolo (2009), Lennox andMinott (2011), or Cruces et al (2012) provide a thorough discussion of the visibility of Afro-descendants in Latin American statistics and the recent debate on the issue.…”
Section: Data Wellbeing and Race/ethnicitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This has generally lead to the invisibility of ethnic minorities, mostly Afro-descendants and indigenous people, in modern statistics all over the region (with the outstanding exception of Brazil), although the situation is changing rapidly due to increasing concern about making minorities visible as a first step to recognize the diversity and overcome discrimination. Antón and Del Popolo (2009), Lennox andMinott (2011), or Cruces et al (2012) provide a thorough discussion of the visibility of Afro-descendants in Latin American statistics and the recent debate on the issue.…”
Section: Data Wellbeing and Race/ethnicitymentioning
confidence: 99%
“…The addition of Afro‐descendent to the 2010 census was implemented in accordance with the UN's International Convention for the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination, and as part of a regional initiative of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to ‘promote the institutionalisation of ethnic affairs in the national statistical system[s]’ of Latin American countries and to ‘oversee politics in favor of minority groups, indigenous populations, and Afro‐Panamanians’ (CERD, ). According to Lennox and Minott (: 262–263), this increasing push for data collection and publishing serves the objectives of sensitising individuals to collective expressions of identity; assisting in social mobilisation through the formation of a collective consciousness; as empirical proof of socioeconomic disadvantage among group members and the effectiveness of affirmative action programmes; and as a mechanism for formal political and social recognition, which is distinct from the melting pot concept.…”
Section: Transnationalism In Panamanian Cultural Politicsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Ethno‐racial group identity in Latin America and the Caribbean has been both a formative social element as well as a salient political issue throughout the region (Hale, ; Quijano, ; Dzidzienyo and Oboler, ; Jiménez Román and Flores, ). Although tension between indigenous, Afro‐descended, mestizo , and other groups has manifested in various permutations since the early sixteenth century, the past century has witnessed an increasingly dynamic ethno‐racial climate (Cobas et al, ), as movements towards the achievement of political recognition, land rights, and anti‐discriminatory legislation have involved the state (Appelbaum et al, ), grassroots organisations and coalitions (Hooker, ), and more recently transnational bodies (Lennox and Minott, ). This process has not only influenced the status of various groups over time (cf.…”
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“…Racism is commonly part of daily life for the estimated 150 million Afrolatinos-individuals of African descent living in Latin America and the Caribbean (Lennox and Minott 2011). Ninety percent (90%) of Dominicans are Afrolatino, 1.5 million of whom live in the US, constituting the fifth-largest US Hispanic group (Brown and Patten 2013;López 2015).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%