Abstract

The material culture and visualities of Afro-descendant component of state and university museums in Chile persist in their invisibility to society as a whole due to museological practices dissociated from the spheres of reflection on racialized structural inequality (activism, academia and public policies). Afro-diasporic heritages in Chilean public museums are characterized from the dialogue with decolonizing tendencies that are emerging in Western museums. In order to offer a first mapping of the pieces that compose this heritage, we discuss Hispanic-indigenous theoretical model that orients the classificatory order and the exhibition complex of museums when the problematic Afro-indigenous category becomes protagonist.