How Do Identities of Afro-Colombian Women from The Community Council of San Andrés Village Contribute to Their Community Development

Palabras clave: community development, identity, afro-descendant, community council

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Identity leads to conditionate actions in context, and these actions can contribute to community development. This paper will present a historical overview of afro-women in Colombia; will describe how afro-women from the Afrodescendant Community Council of San Andrés village identify themselves. Based on this, the main goal of this research is to discover how afro-women contribute to community development based on their self-identity conception. The research is done following a mixed method with an exploratory sequential design, applying qualitative and quantitative analysis. A new finding is presented that evidences individual and collective identity and their historical and current contribution to the community development of the Afrodescendant Community Council of San Andrés village.

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2023-12-14
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Mazo Quintero , D. T. (2023). How Do Identities of Afro-Colombian Women from The Community Council of San Andrés Village Contribute to Their Community Development. Ciencia Latina Revista Científica Multidisciplinar, 7(6), 649-676. https://doi.org/10.37811/cl_rcm.v7i6.8717
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