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. "International Organizations and the Human Rights of Afro-Latin Americans." 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.
Augustín Láo Montes, “Mapping the Field of Afro-Latin American Politics: In and Out of the Civil Society Agenda” 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, “From Afro-Colombians to Afro-descendants. The Trajectory of Black Social Movements in Colombia 1990-2010,” 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 Mendonça, Benedita da Silva: an Afro-Brazilian woman’s story of politics and love. 1997.
John Burdick, “What is the Colour of the Holy Spirit? Pentecostalism and Black Identity in Brazil,” Latin American Research Review, 34:2, 1999.
Ariel E. Dulitzky, “When Afro-descendants became "Tribal Peoples": The Inter-American Human Rights System and Rural Black Communities” UCLA Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs. 15:1, 2010, 29-81.
Maria Fernanda Escllón, “Heritage, land, labor, and competing claims for Afro-Colombian Rights,” International Journal of Cultural Property, 25:1, 2018, 59-83
Manuel Gongora Mera, “The Ethnic Chapter of the 2016 Colombian peace agreement and the afro-descendants' right to prior consultation: a story of unfulfilled promises,” 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, “Political Inclusion and Representation of Afrodescendant Women in Latin America,” in Maria Escobar-Lemmon and Michelle Taylor-Robinson, eds. Representation: The Case of Women (Oxford University Press, 2014).
Tanya Katerí Hernández, “Race and the Law in Latin America” in Kwame Dixon and Ollie. A. Johnson (eds.) Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America Routledge, 2018
Augustín Láo Montes, “Mapping the Field of Afro-Latin American Politics: In and Out of the Civil Society Agenda” 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.) The Crisis of Multiculturalism in Latin America. 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, “Building inclusive democracies: Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in Latin America,” Democratization,12: 5, 2005, 820-837.
Leandro Vergara-Camus, “The Politics of the MST: Autonomous Rural Communities, the State, and Electoral Politics,” Latin American Perspectives, 36:4 (July 2009): 178-91
Howard Winant, “Rethinking Race in Brazil,” 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
RECLAMA, Harnessing Afro-Ecuadorian Women's Heritage
FRANCIS, H., BOUDEWIJN, I., CARCELÉN-ESTRADA, A., FRANCIS BONE, J., JENKINS, K. and ZARAGOCIN, S., "Decolonising Oral History: A Conversation." History, 106 2021: 265-281.
Primary Sources
The Durban Declaration, 2001 See also, https://www.un.org/en/conferences/racism
OHCHR: Defending the rights of African descendants in the Americas, 2011.
OHCHR: Equal figures, equal societies, 2011.
Colombian Peace Agreement, 2016
Statement read by the researcher América Nicte-López Chávez at the OHCHR 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: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/01/afro-colombian-women-risking-lives-defend-communities/