The agenda against racism approved at the Durban conference in 2001 drew, to a large extent, on the programme approved by the network of Afro-Latin American social movements in Santiago de Chile in 2000, where the signifier afrodescendiente was introduced, as explained above, as a unifying political identity. The intersectional dimensions of 'Afrodescendent' as a category should also be recognized. First used by Afro-Latin American feminists, the term 'Afrodescendent' flourished as part of a process where racism was deliberately gendered and eroticized. In other words, the political culture in which 'Afrodescendent' was produced as a political category to be used against oppression and for empowerment, was aware of the links between racial, gender, sexual and class oppressions and their entangled forms of discrimination. This is spelled out, both in the Santiago declaration of the regional conference of the Americas in preparation for the WCAR and in the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action, both explicitly against racism and connected forms of discrimination.  
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[^0]:    28 There is a growing body of scholarship on Afro-Colombian activism, organization, collective action and politics. See, among others, Agudelo, Escobar, Wabgou et al., Osslender, Flórez Flórez, and Pardo.