For Land and Liberty: Black Struggles in Rural Brazil

ISBN-13: 9781108832359 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 249 str.

Merle L. Bowen

Opis

A comparative examination of black rural communities' claims to land and their connections to the broader fight against racism in Brazil.

Recenzje

'Scholars of Latin American studies, Africana studies, history, geogra­phy, anthropology, and agrarian studies will get an extensive overview of the regional complexities in applying a land reform program, including what was promised and what has failed to deliver.' Mary Lorena Kenny, Agricultural History

Spis treści

Introduction; 1. History, Heritage, and Resistance; 2. Ethnic Cultural Politics Trumps Black Land Rights; 3. Quilombola Recognition and Criminalization of Blackness; 4. Land, Labor, and Livelihoods; 5. Ethnic Tourism and the Commodification of Quilombola Culture; Conclusion.