'Danzando en el umbral': of the interstitial subject and its (im)possibility in a racialized study field 'afrodescendant' in argentina.

Abstract

In this essay, I attempt to illustrate a historic moment in 'Afro' Argentina (re)emergency, characterized by an incremental use of racialization criteria and its projection in social and institutional relations, as it is experiencing today. I believe we are attending the first stage of outcomes corresponding to a late Multiculturalism (Parody, 2016a), deployed under the umbrella of inclusive national policy that today it seems to go in reverse. Nevertheless, the new configurations of subjectivity and the diversification in the field of academic work seem to be able to join their flow to a genuine stream of changes which would be taking place in the field of production and dissemination of knowledge, in spite of being unprecedented - or being unacceptable to pre-existing sectors of this field. Categories previously applied to 'agents' and 'actors' - and the 'habitus' and 'status' that they are consistent with- are thus challenged, generating processes which, in the name of progress, seem to add sophistication to the implicit violence that derives from the colonial analogy appealed by the academy, as this turns to be performative in respect of activism, and vice versa. New masks provide a change of roles - and an extensive series of investments - without the mechanisms of the coloniality being affected, but exacerbated. The new scenarios of construction and dissemination of knowledge are thus hampered thanks to the lack of an interdisciplinary modality and, at the same time, plural conducive to collaborative work among sectors. In such a process, the interstitial subject, who is currently the condition of subalternity, is denied in favor of the growing racial enrollment criteria. I begin to expose all this, then, from my own experience between art and scientific research.