El estudio comprende las formas contemporáneas en que la esclavitud como mentalidad se reproduce en el imaginario social costarricense, a partir de lo cual se continúan dando acciones concretas de discriminación y opresión por el género y la raza hacia las mujeres afrocostarricenses; asimismo, se retoman las diferentes estrategias que ellas utilizan para resistirse, relacionando su situación actual con las vivencias de sus ancestras.
This study encompasses contemporary forms by which slavery, as a mentality, is reproduced in the Costa Rican social imaginary. Based on this concept, several acts of discrimination and oppression by their gender and race are still occurring against Afro-Costa Rican women. Also, different strategies used to resist those events are recalled from their life experiences, linking their current situation with the experiences of their female ancestors.