For Afro-Chileans, First Step Is Getting Counted
For Afro-Chileans, First Step Is Getting Counted
By
Arthur Williams
How Chile's Afro-descendant rights groups are pushing for inclusion in the national census.
Seventeen years ago, a group of Latin American and Caribbean NGOs, government agencies and regional bodies officially adopted the term “Afro-descendant” to refer to the region’s approximately 150 million citizens of African origin. The occasion was the Latin American Regional Conference Against Racism in Santiago, and the host was the government of Chile.
Ironically, nearly...
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