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Black bodies, black rights : the politics of quilombolismo in contemporary Brazil /

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Farfán-Santos, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016.
Edition:First edition.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : a "problematic" field
  • Black heroes : rewriting black resistance and quilombo history
  • Black identities : conceiving blackness and quilombolismo
  • Black lives : "we are quilombolas!"
  • Black rights : documentation, proof, and authenticity
  • Black justice : grande paraguacu and the growing fight for quilombola justice.