Territorio, identidad, memoria colectiva y movimiento étnico de los grupos negros del Pacífico sur colombiano: Microhistoria y etnografía sobre el río Tapaje

Based on a case study in the south Colombian Pacific region, this article connects the historical antecedents of black peoples territorial formation and identity construction to the elaboration of new senses of collectivity now taking place in the ethnic movement of black groups. In this regard, their system of traditional memory, characterized as "dispersed and discontinuous," is undergoing a transition process insofar as the ethnic movement portrays a new representation of its collectivity or Afro‐Colombianness with a sequential narrative format that imitates that of erudite and dominant history by establishing a historical continuity from African origins until the present time. On the other hand, the micro‐historical scale shows that, as part of this ethnogenesis, these black groups have been involved in recurrent interactions between their collective representations and dominant modernist discourse, without losing the narrative center of gravity of their collective memory.