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First edition. |
| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 196 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Summary |
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 success for black rights; however, rights for quilombolas are highly controversial and, in many cases, have led to violent land conflicts. Although thousands of rural black communities have been legally recognized, only a handful have received the rights they were promised. Conflict over quilombola rights is widespread and carries important consequences for race relations and political representations of blackness in twenty-first century Brazil. Drawing on a year of field research in a quilombola community, Elizabeth Farfán-Santos explores how quilombo recognition has significantly affected the everyday lives of those who experience the often-complicated political process. Questions of identity, race, and entitlement play out against a community's struggle to prove its historical authenticity--and to gain the land and rights they need to survive. This work not only demonstrates the lived experience of a new, particular form of blackness in Brazil, but also shows how blackness is being mobilized and reimagined to gain social rights and political recognition. Black Bodies, Black Rights thus represents an important contribution to the rapidly growing interdisciplinary field of Afro-Latino studies. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-187) and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Black people -- Brazil.
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Black people. |
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Brazil. |
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Black people -- Political activity -- Brazil.
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Black people -- Political activity. |
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Black people -- Race identity -- Brazil.
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Black people -- Race identity. |
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Black people -- Brazil -- Social conditions.
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Social conditions. |
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Black people -- Civil rights -- Brazil.
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Black people -- Civil rights. |
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Quilombos -- Brazil.
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Quilombos. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Farfán-Santos, Elizabeth. Black bodies, black rights. First edition. Austin : University of Texas Press, 2016 9781477309223 (DLC) 2015033635 (OCoLC)920680571 |
| ISBN |
9781477309230 (electronic book) |
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1477309233 (electronic book) |
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9781477309247 (non-library e-book) |
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1477309241 (non-library e-book) |
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9781477309223 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1477309225 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9781477309421 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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147730942X (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
| Sudoc No. |
Z UA380.8 F224BL |
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