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“Homeland, Culture, Justice and Freedom”: Alex Curling Delisser at the dawn of the black caribbean intelligentsia in costa rica

Authors

  • Marianela Muñoz Muñoz Universidad de Costa Rica
  • Diana Senior Angulo Universidad de Costa Rica
No. 16 (2021): April-september. Dossier: "Afro-Descendant Intellectuals in Latin America and the Caribbean: Figures, Discourses and Spaces of Circulation"
https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2021.61355

Abstract

This article analyzes the trajectory and political thought of Alex Curling Delisser from a Black, Caribbean identity in Costa Rica. As an intellectual and the first West Indian descendent congressmen, Curling faces a racialized matrix of power where his community is previously defined and socially differentiated. Curling’s use of the press, following a circum-Caribbean tradition of circulation of ideas, in tandem with the content of his political discourse, suggests a permanent awareness and defense of Costa Rican citizenship for people of color. Complementary, his work shows an erudition and active use of Black political references, next to other local and “cosmopolitan” cultural narratives. Despite the fact that Alex Curling has been recognized as the "Father of legal equality" in Costa Rica, the diasporic nature of his speech, the negotiation of his "national" identity and his relationship with a Caribbean intelligentsia have not been dually studied. The analysis of some of his written interventions aims to activate this discussion.

Keywords:

intellectuality, black-identity, press, citizenship, Costa Rican Caribbean, Black political thought

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Muñoz Muñoz, M., & Senior Angulo, D. (2021). “Homeland, Culture, Justice and Freedom”: Alex Curling Delisser at the dawn of the black caribbean intelligentsia in costa rica. Meridional. Revista Chilena De Estudios Latinoamericanos, (16). https://doi.org/10.5354/0719-4862.2021.61355
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