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Treading Other Paths within Afro-Diasporic Contexts: Unilab Students’ Experiences, Challenges, and Perspectives

Humanities, 2019
In this paper, I discuss some of the processes that characterized the creation and consolidation of the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (Unilab) in Bahia, as part of the expansion project of public higher education in ...
Cristiane Santos Souza
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“A Person's God Should Look Like Them”: African Traditional Religions Among Black Queer Millennials and Gen Z Americans

Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT How are young Black Americans practicing spirituality contemporarily? Today younger generations of Black Americans are more likely than older Black Americans to identify as religiously unaffiliated or as practicing a non‐Christian faith. Drawing on 109 interviews with Black Millennial and Gen Z Americans, I examine how some of these younger ...
Terrell J. A. Winder
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New Labor Governance? The German Supply Chain Act and National Governance Mechanisms in Brazil

Regulation &Governance, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Due diligence laws respond to labor governance challenges and to a lack of public governance addressing human rights violations in Global Value Chains. Despite ongoing contestation, the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act seeks to hold German‐based firms accountable for human rights risks in their supply chains.
Helena Gräf
wiley   +1 more source

Eco‐Epidemiological Study of Seropositivity Against Rickettsia and Leptospira Agents in Rural Areas of Urabá, Colombia

Tropical Medicine &International Health, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Introduction Rickettsioses and leptospirosis are infectious diseases often underdiagnosed due to limited knowledge about their epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical aspects. Objectives To characterize the seroprevalence and seroincidence of Rickettsia and Leptospira agents and determine their associated factors in rural areas of Urabá ...
Mariana Torres‐Bustamante, Omar Cantillo‐Barraza, Albert I. Ko, Elsio A. Wunder Jr, Juan C. Quintero‐Vélez   +4 more
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Beyond the Flesh: Contemporary Representations of the Black Female Body in Afro-Brazilian Literature

Meridians, 2016
Abstract This essay takes an intersectional and transnational approach to analyze how selected poetic texts by contemporary Afro-Brazilian writers Conceição Evaristo, Esmeralda Ribeiro Cristiane Sobral, Miriam Alves, and Elisa Lucinda (re)design portrayals of Afro-descendant/black female bodies.
openaire   +3 more sources

O afro-brasileiro e sua representação no livro didático de língua materna

Trabalhos em Linguística Aplicada, 2016
O objetivo deste texto é considerar as facetas da inclusão do afrodescendente no livro didático determinadas pela seleção de textos sociais que integram este material pedagógico.
Giselle Rodrigues Ribeiro
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Mia Couto e as Possibilidades Literário-Pedagógicas para a Lei n.º 10.639/03

Cadernos de Estudos Africanos, 2018
The paper aims to assess how Mia Couto, author of African literatures in Portuguese, can be addressed in Law no. 10.639/2003, i.e., the study of history of Africa and Africans, the struggle of black people in Brazil, the Brazilian black culture and the ...
Eni Alves Rodrigues
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An interdisciplinary review of the interplay of conflict, socio‐economic factors, and land cover and vegetation dynamics in Colombia

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, Volume 8, Issue 5, Page 1533-1549, September 2026.
Colombia's forests play a crucial role in preserving biodiversity and mitigating climate change, but they are currently facing severe degradation, particularly after the 2016 Peace Agreement. Our literature review highlights a growing research interest in this topic and demonstrates how interdisciplinary approaches combining diverse methods can enhance
Estefanía Muñoz, Jesús A. Anaya, Nicola Clerici, Lina M. Estupinan‐Suarez, Isabel Lopera, Solveig Richter, Alejandro Salazar, Carlos A. Sierra, Andrés Tangarife‐Escobar, Miguel D. Mahecha, David Montero, Pablo Palacios‐Rodríguez, Pablo Ramos, Santiago Botía   +13 more
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THE AFRO-BRAZILIANS’ REPRESENTATION IN THE PORTUGUESE LANGUAGE SCHOOL TEXTBOOK

Travessias, 2008
The aim of this article is to consider the social representation of the Afro-Brazilians in the Portuguese language school textbook. After analyzing three collections of textbooks, focusing on texts and pictures, we noticed that the Afro-Brazilians are ...
Giselle Rodrigues Ribeiro, Renilson José Menegassi   +1 more
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Interrogating the Effects of Technologies of Pregnancy Surveillance on Queer, Trans and Nonbinary Midwifery Service‐Users

Sociology of Health &Illness, Volume 48, Issue 7, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Queer, transgender and nonbinary (QTNB) people access midwifery services, yet little is known about their experiences of midwifery care. Our qualitative study used critical narrative inquiry to examine how QTNB midwifery service‐users in Ontario, Canada, experience cisheteronormativity in healthcare.
Jennifer M. Goldberg, Amaya Perez‐Brumer, Lori E. Ross   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source