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Carmen J. Jiménez
Sin embargo, sea el factor de la publicación uno determinante o no, lo importante es que Pobre negro es una de las novelas menos conocidas de Gallegos tanto en su país como en el exterior. Como lo ha puntualizado Winthrop R. Wright, en Venezuela se niega el racismo y los prejuicios raciales; sin embargo, a lo largo de su historia, muchos intelectuales, sobre todo, han promovido "to whiten the mass of Venezuelans because they believed that pardos and blacks comprised an unruly mass incapable of achieving progress, as they desired it" (94). Añade también: "One could propose then that all formulation of cultural autochthony exist thoroughly in mode of crisis, not only because they purport to arise in answer to a critical predicament, but also because they reenact that crisis in their own rhetorical structure" (7). Esos mecanismos "endeavor[s] to shift the ground for legitimate ownership of the land from a legalistic/ genealogical plane into an ethical realm, where personal involvement and the direct assumption of the responsibilities of ownership become primary criteria"
