The present work analyses the influence of the neoliberal and multicultural govern-mentality over the constitution of the black community as a political subject among the people of Jiguamiandó and Curbaradó, at the Bajo Atrato region, in the state of Chocó, Colombia. For this, I carry out an ethnography on the effects of the State materialized in concrete practices and relationships between representatives of the populations, armed actors, state officials and humanitarian organizations aligned with the Catholic Church who, inserted in institutional logics, entered into deep disputes about the definition of ethnic-racial lines to outline what it is and who can be part of the black community. From these tensions, the self-census emerges as the state technology that would invoke anthropological and demographic practice to redeem the conflict. I conclude by explaining how, for the study case and as a contribution to the national process of black communities, the ethnization process was racialized and placed ethnicity at the center of the dispute of the agro-industrial and humanitarian project for the expansion of their interests in the lands of both Jiguamiandó and Curbaradó populations.
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