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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| Format: | Government Document Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Austin :
University of Texas Press,
2016
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| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
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.
