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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Main Author: Farfán-Santos, Elizabeth (Author)
Format: Government Document Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016
Edition:First edition.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central