Merle L. Bowen (Urbana-Champaign University of Illinois)

For Land and Liberty

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Produktbeschreibung

For Land and Liberty addresses black rural communities' claims to land in Brazil. By analyzing the national quilombo (African-descent rural communities) movement to protect land rights, traditional practices, resources, and food sovereignty, Bowen offers readers new perspectives on rural movements, mobilizations, and resistance in Brazil.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Studies on the African Diaspora
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juni 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 410g
• ISBN-13: 9781108928953
• ISBN-10: 1108928951
• Artikelnr.: 67636771

Autorenporträt

Merle L. Bowen is Associate Professor of African American studies at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. She is the author of The State against the Peasantry: Rural Struggles in Colonial and Postcolonial Mozambique.

Inhaltsangabe

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.