Week 7: Multiculturalism Revisited
Week 7. Multiculturalism Revisited: Rights for Afro-Latin Americans
What strategies have Afro-Latin Americans used to campaign for rights? What have been the major concerns of their campaigns? How has multicultural constitutionalism affected Afro-Latin Americans? How have Afro Latin-Americans engaged with international and national legislation, NGOs and transnational social movements?
Core Readings
Pierre-Michelle Fontaine. in Rahier J.M. (eds) Black Social Movements in Latin America. Palgrave Macmillan, New York., 2012. and/or a chapter from the same volume on a country that you are interested in.
August铆n L谩o Montes, 鈥淢apping the Field of Afro-Latin American Politics: In and Out of the Civil Society Agenda鈥� in Sonia E. Alvarez, et al. (eds.) Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America. Durham: London, Duke University Press, 2017.
Further Readings
Kiran Asher, 鈥淔rom Afro-Colombians to Afro-descendants. The Trajectory of Black Social Movements in Colombia 1990-2010,鈥� in Sonia E. Alvarez, et al. (eds.) Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America. Durham: London, Duke University Press, 2017.
Medea Benjamin and Maisa Mendon莽a, Benedita da Silva: an Afro-Brazilian woman鈥檚 story of politics and love. 1997.
John Burdick, 鈥淲hat is the Colour of the Holy Spirit? Pentecostalism and Black Identity in Brazil,鈥� Latin American Research Review, 34:2, 1999.
Ariel E. Dulitzky, 鈥�鈥� UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs. 15:1, 2010, 29-81.
Maria Fernanda Escll贸n, 鈥�,鈥� International Journal of Cultural Property, 25:1, 2018, 59-83
Manuel Gongora Mera, 鈥�,鈥� International Journal of Human Rights. 23:6, 2019, 938-956.
Dixon, Kwame, and Burdick, John, eds. Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America. Florida: University Press of Florida, 2012. (Parts 2 and 3)
Mala Htun, 鈥�,鈥� in Maria Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle Taylor-Robinson, eds. Representation: The Case of Women (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Tanya Kater铆 Hern谩ndez, 鈥�Race and the Law in Latin America鈥� in Kwame Dixon and Ollie. A. Johnson (eds.) Routledge, 2018
August铆n L谩o Montes, 鈥淢apping the Field of Afro-Latin American Politics: In and Out of the Civil Society Agenda鈥� in Sonia E. Alvarez, et al. (eds.) Beyond Civil Society: Activism, Participation, and Protest in Latin America. Durham: London, Duke University Press, 2017.
David Lehman (ed.) London: Palgrave Studies in the Americas, 2019.
Cecilia McCallum, "Women Out of Place? A Micro-Historical Perspective on the Black Feminist Movement in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil." Journal of Latin American Studies, 39:1 (2007): 55-80.
Keisha-Khan Y. Perry Geographies of Power: Black Women Mobilizing Intersectionality in Brazil: Feminism, Race, Transnationalism. Meridians 14.1 (2016): 94-120.
Donna Lee Van Cott, 鈥溾�� Democratization,12: 5, 2005, 820-837.
Leandro Vergara-Camus, 鈥淭he Politics of the MST: Autonomous Rural Communities, the State, and Electoral Politics,鈥� Latin American Perspectives, 36:4 (July 2009): 178-91
Howard Winant, 鈥淩ethinking Race in Brazil,鈥� Journal of Latin American Studies, 24:1, Feb. 1992; see also article by Reid Andrews in same issue.
Frances Winddance Twine, Racism in a Racial Democracy: The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil, 1997.
A Project
FRANCIS, H., BOUDEWIJN, I., CARCEL脡N-ESTRADA, A., FRANCIS BONE, J., JENKINS, K. and ZARAGOCIN, S., "." History, 106 2021: 265-281.
Primary Sources
See also,
26th session of the Working Group of experts on people of African descent, Regional meetings with Civil Society, Latin America and Caribbean Session, 24 November 2020
Amnesty Report on Colombia: