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Black Bodies, Black Rights: The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil

Black Bodies, Black Rights: The Politics of Quilombolismo in Contemporary Brazil

Farfán-Santos, Elizabeth

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General Political ScienceGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 147730942X
ISBN13: 9781477309421
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: May 24 2016
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.75
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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