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This article seeks to identify the different stereotypes and mechanisms of the process of racialization, sexualized racism and racialized sexism. At the same time, through the analysis of interviews of Afro-Colombian middle-class men and women in Bogota, I analyze the relation between "being a black woman" and "being perceived as a 'black woman'" and "being a black man" and "being perceived as a 'black man'" through challenging racial, gendered and classed boundaries, considering their intersections and showing 'black' persons primarily as agents, and not only as victims, that can contribute to both the transformation and the reproduction of racialization processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article is about the process of ethno-racialization in the multicultural era specifically in the context of Colombia nowadays. A wide comprehensive theoretical framework is taken as the basis (racialization, structural racism, multiculturalism, intersectionality, everyday racism). The analysis of primary sources and in-depth interviews to young African descents from Bogotá are used to argue that multiculturalism, as it has been developed on a legislative level and in the colombian public policies, is not a challenge for the racialized foundations of power and social relations and that there is a variety of mechanisms that seek to defend the privileges of the white-mestizo. However and simultaneously, we suggest that multiculturalism provides a number of opportunities to question the racialized social and political system and to develop strategies of resistance. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]