Becoming Black Political Subjects : Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil / Tianna S. Paschel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Paschel, Tianna S., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Identity politics--Brazil.

Identity politics.

Identity politics--Colombia.

Black people--Race identity--Brazil.

Black people.

Black people--Race identity--Colombia.

Black people--Brazil--Politics and government.

Black people--Colombia--Politics and government.

Brazil--Politics and government--2002-.

Brazil.

Brazil--Politics and government--1985-2002.

Colombia--Politics and government--1974-.

Colombia.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (325 p.)

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2016]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980's. In addition to symbolic recognition of indigenous peoples and black populations, governments in the region created a more pluralistic model of citizenship and made significant reforms in the areas of land, health, education, and development policy. Becoming Black Political Subjects explores this shift from color blindness to ethno-racial legislation in two of the most important cases in the region: Colombia and Brazil. Drawing on archival and ethnographic research, Tianna Paschel shows how, over a short period, black movements and their claims went from being marginalized to become institutionalized into the law, state bureaucracies, and mainstream politics. The strategic actions of a small group of black activists-working in the context of domestic unrest and the international community's growing interest in ethno-racial issues-successfully brought about change. Paschel also examines the consequences of these reforms, including the institutionalization of certain ideas of blackness, the reconfiguration of black movement organizations, and the unmaking of black rights in the face of reactionary movements. Becoming Black Political Subjects offers important insights into the changing landscape of race and Latin American politics and provokes readers to adopt a more transnational and flexible understanding of social movements.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

List of Organizations

Chapter One. Political Field Alignments

Chapter Two. Making Mestizajes

Chapter Three. Black Movements in Colorblind Fields

Chapter Four. The Multicultural Alignment

Chapter Five. The Racial Equality Alignment

Chapter Six. Navigating the Ethno-Racial State

Chapter Seven. Unmaking Black Political Subjects

Chapter Eight. Rethinking Race, Rethinking Movements

Methodological Appendix

Notes

References

Acknowledgments

Index

Credits:

Jacket Art by Iléa Ferraz.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-295) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Mai 2019)

ISBN:

9781400881079

1400881072

OCLC:

1017612020