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.
Subjects:
Black people > Brazil.
Black people > Political activity > Brazil.
Black people > Race identity > Brazil.
Black people > Brazil > Social conditions.
Black people > Civil rights > Brazil.
Quilombos > Brazil.
Personnes noires > Activité politique > Brésil.
Quilombos > Brésil.
Personnes noires > Brésil.
Personnes noires > Identité ethnique > Brésil.
Personnes noires > Brésil > Conditions sociales.
Personnes noires > Droits > Brésil.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American
Black people
Black people > Civil rights
Black people > Political activity
Black people > Race identity
Black people > Social conditions
Quilombos
Brazil
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.

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