Laura Correa Ochoa

Laura Correa Ochoa

Assistant Professor, Rice University
Laura Correa

Laura Correa Ochoa research focuses on questions of race, nationhood, citizenship and Afro-Colombian mobilization in the 20th century. Her dissertation examines how Afro-Colombians have mobilized to make individual and collective claims for recognition, equal citizenship and human rights from the 1930s to the 1990s. She focuses not only in moments in which black Colombians made claims on the basis of colour, but also demands made through multiracial, class and gender-based organizations. By making demands for ethnic particularity and economic equality through their participation in political parties, labour unions and women, student and black organizations, Afro-Colombians have pushed the boundaries and meaning of citizenship in Colombia beyond its legal, formal conceptions.

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