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Print version ISSN 0101-546X   AGIER, Michel  and  QUINTIN,
Pedro. Politics, culture and self-perception: the identities in
question. Estud. afro-asiát. [online]. 2003, vol.25, n.1, pp.
23-41. ISSN 0101-546X.  The ethnical-racial formation of
identity as a social process is came upon several factors which
permanently stipulate and transform it. In this article it is
intended to analyze the political and cultural factors that have
conditioned the identity formation of the black population in
the rural and urban zones behind the appearance of the 1991
Colombian Constitution, but through the de-construction of an
ethnicity essentialist point of view. In the article, it has
been analyzed how an inclusion political mechanism is done by