Desde 2000, mujeres reconocidas como afroperuanas han estado siempre presentes en el Congreso peruano. Este hecho distingue al Perú de otros países de la región, donde las mujeres afrodescendientes están ampliamente ausentes. Por otro lado, las mujeres afroperuanas incluidas como representantes comparten características tales como sus orígenes en familias no relacionadas con la política y una destacada trayectoria como voleibolistas profesionales. Este artículo explora sus rutas hacia el poder político desde una perspectiva interseccional, mediante entrevistas semiestructuradas con mujeres identificadas como afroperuanas electas para el Congreso de la República del Perú entre los años 2000 y 2016. En lugar del camino tradicional hacia el poder a través de lazos familiares o los caminos del activismo político y comunitario, las participantes de este estudio ejemplifican una ...

Ethnic and racial stereotypes are part of the language that the Peruvian sports press uses in the construction of news. At the same time, such press replicates the complaints of racist events in football.This article refl ects on a methodological strategy to examine the coexistence of both elements in the Peruvian sports press. Taking into account the specific characteristics of this type of press and the particularity of racism in Peru, we detect the need to use a research approach that addresses diff erent dimensions of both textual discourse and discourse as a social, cultural and discursive practice.It is a process that relates three stages of data collection: content analysis, critical discourse analysis and in-depth interviews with discourse producers. Put in dialogue, the results of the three analyzes show that the apparently contradictory relationship between the discourse and th...

Since 2000, women recognized as Afro-Peruvians have always been present at the Peruvian Congress. This fact distinguishes Peru from other countries in the region where Afro-descendant women are widely absent. On the other hand, Afro-Peruvian women included as representatives share characte-ristics such as their origins in families unrelated to politics and an outstanding career as professional volleyball players. Through semi-structured interviews with women identified as Afro-Peruvian who were elected to the Congress of the Republic of Peru this article explores their routes to political power from an intersectional perspective. Instead of the traditional path to power through family ties or the paths of political and community activism, participants in this study exemplify an alternative route to being elected representatives: volleyball. This relationship, however, occurs amid paradox...

Ethnic and racial stereotypes are part of the language that the Peruvian sports press uses in the construction of news. At the same time, such press replicates the complaints of racist events in football.This article refl ects on a methodological strategy to examine the coexistence of both elements in the Peruvian sports press. Taking into account the specific characteristics of this type of press and the particularity of racism in Peru, we detect the need to use a research approach that addresses diff erent dimensions of both textual discourse and discourse as a social, cultural and discursive practice.It is a process that relates three stages of data collection: content analysis, critical discourse analysis and in-depth interviews with discourse producers. Put in dialogue, the results of the three analyzes show that the apparently ...

Ethnic and racial stereotypes are part of the language that the Peruvian sports press uses in the construction of news. At the same time, such press replicates the complaints of racist events in football.This article refl ects on a methodological strategy to examine the coexistence of both elements in the Peruvian sports press. Taking into account the specific characteristics of this type of press and the particularity of racism in Peru, we detect the need to use a research approach that addresses diff erent dimensions of both textual discourse and discourse as a social, cultural and discursive practice.It is a process that relates three stages of data collection: content analysis, critical discourse analysis and in-depth interviews with discourse producers. Put in dialogue, the results of the three analyzes show that the apparently ...