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Racism and Ethnic Discrimination in Guatemala - Institute of Latin ...

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4 Perspectivas y concepciones de una élite simbólicaacerca del racismo en <strong>Guatemala</strong>Amilcar DávilaAmilcar Dávila:Investigador. W<strong>in</strong>aq Centrode Estudios Humanísticos,Universidad Rafael L<strong>and</strong>ívar,<strong>Guatemala</strong>, <strong>Guatemala</strong>.E-mail: aleph@gua.netEn <strong>Guatemala</strong>, el racismo da sentido, estructura y anima unrégimen socioeconómico, político y cultural que ha sojuzgadosecularmente, y aún oprime de manera particular, si bienno exclusiva, a los pueblos <strong>in</strong>dígenas mayas guatemaltecos.S<strong>in</strong> olvidarse de las agresiones que éstos sufren día a día,especialmente las mujeres, es importante ampliar las perspectivasy los conceptos con que se comprende el problema y atacarlecomo un mal multidimensional y sistémico. En la última décadaha crecido significativamente la preocupación y la comprensióndel racismo en diferentes espacios: academia, sociedad, Estado.Especial relevancia tienen las concepciones del problema y de susrelaciones con el Estado que adopta la élite simbólica del país.Palabras claves: relaciones étnicas; relaciones sociales contemporáneas; élite simbólicaAmilcar Dávila:Researcher. W<strong>in</strong>aq Centrode Estudios Humanísticos,Universidad Rafael L<strong>and</strong>ívar,<strong>Guatemala</strong>, <strong>Guatemala</strong>.E-mail: aleph@gua.netIn <strong>Guatemala</strong>, racism gives mean<strong>in</strong>g, structure <strong>and</strong> frames asocio-economic, political <strong>and</strong> cultural regime that has beenconsolidated secularly <strong>and</strong> oppresses <strong>in</strong>digenous Mayan peoples<strong>in</strong> particular, although not exclusively. Without bypass<strong>in</strong>g theoppression that <strong>in</strong>digenous people suffer on a daily basis,especially women, it is important to broaden our perspectives <strong>and</strong>the concepts used to underst<strong>and</strong> them, <strong>in</strong> order to comprehendracism as a multidimensional systemic evil. In the last decade,concern over <strong>and</strong> comprehension <strong>of</strong> racism has grown <strong>in</strong> differentspaces: academic, social, state. Of special importance are theconceptions that the problem adopts <strong>in</strong> the context <strong>of</strong> the state, <strong>in</strong>particular the relationship <strong>of</strong> the symbolic elite with the state.Keywords: <strong>Ethnic</strong> Relations; Contemporary Social Relations; Symbolic EliteSTOCKHOLM REVIEW OF LATIN AMERICAN STUDIESIssue No. 6, March 201063

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