Black Bodies, Black Rights : : The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil / / Elizabeth Farfán-Santos.
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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2016 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (196 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface La Negra Tomasa
- Acknowledgments
- Acronyms
- Introduction A “Problematic” Field
- Chapter One. Black Heroes: Rewriting Black Resistance and Quilombo History
- Chapter Two. Black Identities: Conceiving Blackness and Quilombolismo
- Chapter Three. Black Lives: “We Are Quilombolas!”
- Chapter Four. Black Rights: Documentation, Proof, and Authenticity
- Chapter Five. Black Justice: Grande Paraguaçu and the Growing Fight for Quilombola Justice
- Conclusion
- Epilogue
- Notes
- References
- Index