State and afro-descendants in Argentina: approaches and questions from the province of Santa Fe

Abstract

This writing is a first systematization and analysis of public policies around Afro-descendants that have been unfolding in the city of Rosario, in the context of the province of Santa Fe (Argentina). I propose an ethnographic approach located differentially in the local. This decision aims to interrogate the key in which a good part of the tracked antecedents are found –the national public policies oriented to Afro-descendants, from a perspective mainly focused on the City of Buenos Aires–; and to understand the particularities that the situation of the Afro-descendant population assumes in other regions of the country. Throughout the journey I carry out an ethnography of the actions that are produced and deployed in the indicated context in terms of public policies towards Afro-descendants, of the ways in which they involve different social actors with interests that sometimes converge and, in others, they bifurcate and the forms of combating racism, as a historical phenomenon that connects claims of local activism and nearby social organizations.