Exposing racism in Colombia: The case of José Félix Angulo, a traffic officer representing the african-descent community

Abstract

This article could also be seen as a highly epistemological reflection on the forms that racism takes in a country like Colombia, where the elites, or failing that, the “governmental imagination,” defender and reproducer of the status quo, has kindly assumed a paternalistic position that authorizes it to create racialized bodies and minds for exploitation. It should be noted that, although the word epistemology refers to the theory of knowledge, it also distinguishes between the foundations and methods of scientific knowledge in order to carry out productive intellectual work and, at the same time, help the researcher become a good epistemologist. Thus, this article takes place in one of those moments of intellectual challenge to unravel, as far as possible, the practices, language, and discourse inherited as a form of internal colonialism framed in unequal power relations.