Juan José Nieto Gil: a subaltern in the construction of Colombia

Abstract: This paper revisits the history and verifies the memory of Juan José Nieto Gil, the first and only black president that Colombia had, who was intentionally made invisible. Based on the analytical categories of intellectual history, discourses, historiography in general and invisibility, we intend to vindicate the memory of the Caribbean man as an actor in the construction of the modern Colombian State, and this by retracing the trajectory of his life, which is characterized by his str ...