Half of Brazil’s Black “Quilombos” Denied State Recognition | Black Agenda Report

Half of Brazil’s Black “Quilombos” Denied State Recognition

Black Agenda Radio with Margaret Kimberley and Glen Ford

01 Dec 2020

🖨️ Print Article

Margaret Kimberley · Half of Brazil’s Black “Quilombos” Denied State Recognition

The autonomous settlements established by Black and indigenous Brazilians to escape slavery and ongoing oppression number between 3,000 and 5,000, “but the Brazilian government only recognizes about half of them in terms of cultural rights” and even less in terms of land rights, said Carla Guerron Montero, an anthropologist at the University of Delaware. Professor Montero has done an extensive study of quilombos, whose residents’ are best described as an ethnic, rather than a racial, group.

Afro-Brazilians

More Stories

Eric Mann
Martin Luther King and the Black Revolutionary Tradition
22 Jan 2020
Dr. King brought a powerful and frontal indictment of the system of white supremacist, racist, capitalism.
David Swanson
Forty-Five Felons With Their Own Holiday: The U.S. Presidency
22 Jan 2020
Margaret Kimberley’s new book on US presidents and Black people shows why the executive mansion is called the “White” House.
Jahan Choudhry BAR Comments Editor
Letters from Our Readers
22 Jan 2020
This week impeachment and China were topics of discussion. We share your letters for “
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Margaret Kimberley’s “Prejudential”
22 Jan 2020
The history of enslavement and American apartheid segregation has permanently disfigured politics in this country.
Roberto Sirvent, BAR Book Forum Editor
BAR Book Forum: Aydogan Kars’ “Unsaying God“
22 Jan 2020
Islam’s association in the West with “terror” makes it nearly impossible Islamic theology as a force for racial or social justice.