La representación de lo afro en las telenovelas colombianas de la década de los 90’ y de los 2010’

Abstract

This project aims to understand how the Afro-descendant community is represented in the open space of Colombian television. This, taking into account that the Colombian television industry, which is the one most used for entertainment purposes, has chosen to isolate these communities and talk about them from a distance and pigeonholing. This distance and stereotyping are reflected in the daily life of many black people who every day must face being seen as the stereotype that the media have been responsible for creating for them, bringing up Goffman who explains how it is that, from certain features through different types of media, society begins to categorize a person or social group in one way or another, without reflecting on the possible stereotypes that can be formed from the attributes that are created in the social consciousness.