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For land and liberty : black struggles in rural Brazil / Merle L. Bowen.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bowen, Merle L., 1953- author.
- Series:
- Cambridge studies on the African diaspora
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Land tenure--Brazil.
- Black people.
- Reparations for historical injustices--Brazil.
- Reparations for historical injustices.
- Land reform--Brazil.
- Land reform.
- Quilombos.
- Land tenure.
- Black people--Legal status, laws, etc.
- Black people--Land tenure.
- Brazil.
- Quilombos--Legal status, laws, etc--Brazil.
- Black people--Legal status, laws, etc--Brazil.
- Quilombos--Land tenure--Brazil.
- Brazil--Rural conditions.
- Rural conditions.
- Brazil--Race relations.
- Race relations.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xxi, 248 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- For Land and Liberty is a comparative study of the history and contemporary circumstances concerning Brazil's quilombos (African-descent rural communities) and their inhabitants, the quilombolas. The book examines the disposition of quilombola claims to land as a site of contestation over citizenship and its meanings for Afro-descendants, as well as their connections to the broader fight against racism. Contrary to the narrative that quilombola identity is a recent invention, constructed for the purpose of qualifying for opportunities made possible by the 1988 law, Bowen argues that quilombola claims are historically and locally rooted. She examines the ways in which state actors have colluded with large landholders and modernization schemes to appropriate quilombo land, and further argues that, even when granted land titles, quilombolas face challenges issuing from systemic racism. By analyzing the quilombo movement and local initiatives, this book offers fresh perspectives on the resurgence of movements, mobilization, and resistance in Brazil.
- Contents:
- History, heritage, and resistance
- Ethnic cultural politics trumps black land rights
- Quilombola recognition and criminalization of blackness
- Land, labor, and livelihoods
- Ethnic tourism and the commodification of Quilombola culture.
- Notes:
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 27 Apr 2021).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9781108935968
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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