Black Bodies, Black Rights The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil

Name: Black Bodies, Black Rights
Author: Elizabeth Farfaan-Santos

Auteur: Elizabeth Farfan-Santos

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Elizabeth Farfan-Santos Elizabeth Farfaan-Santos

Engels
Paperback
9781477309421
24 mei 2016
216 pagina's

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Through extensive field research, this book examines the complicated legal and personal journey facing modern descendants of runaway slave communities as they seek constitutionally granted reparations for their ancestors’ hardships.

Under a provision in the Brazilian constitution, rural black communities identified as the modern descendants of quilombos—runaway slave communities—are promised land rights as a form of reparations for the historic exclusion of blacks from land ownership. The quilombo provision has been hailed as a success for black rights; however, rights for quilombolas are highly controversial and, in many cases, have led to violent land conflicts. Although thousands of rural black communities have been legally recognized, only a handful have received the rights they were promised. Conflict over quilombola rights is widespread and carries important consequences for race relations and political representations of blackness in twenty-first century Brazil.

Drawing on a year of field research in a quilombola community, Elizabeth Farfán-Santos explores how quilombo recognition has significantly affected the everyday lives of those who experience the often-complicated political process. Questions of identity, race, and entitlement play out against a community’s struggle to prove its historical authenticity—and to gain the land and rights they need to survive. This work not only demonstrates the lived experience of a new, particular form of blackness in Brazil, but also shows how blackness is being mobilized and reimagined to gain social rights and political recognition. Black Bodies, Black Rights thus represents an important contribution to the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of Afro-Latino studies.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 24 mei 2016
Aantal pagina's: 216
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Hoofdauteur: Elizabeth Farfan-Santos
Tweede Auteur: Elizabeth Farfaan-Santos
Hoofduitgeverij: University Of Texas Press

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Product breedte: 159 mm
Product hoogte: 19 mm
Product lengte: 235 mm
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Verpakking hoogte: 15 mm
Verpakking lengte: 229 mm
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Categorieën: Mens & Maatschappij

Politiek

Sociale groepen

Politieke controle & Vrijheid

Etnische studies

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