ABSTRACT

Rice has shaped Afro-diasporic cultures, identities and geographies in the Americas. In the Colombian Caribbean, throughout the 20^th century, agrarian modernization re-configured black geographies of rice by transforming cultivated landscapes and disavowing black people´s agricultural knowledges and practices. This article analyzes tongueo, a form of rice harvesting that became widespread during the 1970s and 1980s in the municipality of Marialabaja, a historic afro-campesino territory. Tongueo involved women and children collecting and pounding the rice that was left after mechanized harvest. The stories told by tongueadora women re-signify this practice as a space of enjoyment, sociability and transmission of cultural memory. Drawing on theoretical elements of black geographies and Latin American feminist spatial thought, I argue that tongueo was an embodied territorial practice that occurred within the spaces of agrarian modernization. By shedding light on the configuration of black geographies in articulation with racialized agrarian change in Colombia, the article contributes to broaden the field of black geographies beyond Anglo-centric literature, establishing a dialogue with Latin American debates on territory and body-territory.

摘要

稻米塑造了美洲的非洲裔侨民文化、身份和地理。在哥伦比亚加勒比地区，整个 20^世纪二十世纪，农业现代化通过改变耕地景观和否定黑人的农业知识和实践，重新配置了黑人的水稻地理。本文分析了“舌收”，这是一种水稻收割方式，在 20 世纪 70 年代和 80 年代在玛丽亚拉巴贾市（历史悠久的非洲裔农民领地）广泛流行。《舌头》中，妇女和儿童收集并捣碎机械收割后留下的稻米。舌头妇女讲述的故事将这种做法重新定义为享受、社交和文化记忆传播的空间。借鉴黑人地理学和拉丁美洲女权主义空间思想的理论元素，我认为舌头是发生在农业现代化空间内的一种具体的领土实践。