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Colorism and the Law in Latin America—Global Perspectives on Colorism Conference Remarks [PDF]
, 2015 Today, persons of African descent make up more than forty percent of the poor in Latin America and have been consistently marginalized and denigrated as undesirable elements of the society since the abolition of slavery across the Americas.
Hernandez, Tanya K.
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, 2013 Brazil has had a distinctive definition of national and racial identity, and it has changed considerably over time, and at each time held out different possibilities for social mobility and citizenship.
Guimarães, Antonio Sérgio A.
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Co-herencia: Revista de HumanidadesThis paper offers a fresh interpretation of the thought of Portuguese poet Teixeira de Pascoaes (1877-1952) and Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987), emphasizing how aspects of their work resonate with contemporary struggles for ...
André Corrêa de Sá
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RELIGIÕES AFRICANAS E O CATOLICISMO NAS ORIGENS DO BRASIL.
Colloquium Humanarum, 2010 The purpose of this paper is to analyze the relationship between Catholicism and Afro-Brazilian religions in the colonization of Brazil. We question the way the Portuguese colonists, imbued with the pursuit of profit and adventure, and also of faith and ...
Rafael Egidio Leal e Silva
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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
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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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Land Rights and Socio-Economic Development of Afro-Brazilian Communities [PDF]
, 2010 Law students and recent graduates who spent the Spring 2010 semester studying the land rights of Afro-Brazilian communities have submitted their final report to community leaders and Brazilian government officials, institutions, and non-government ...
Browne, Noah +2 more
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Pathways to Higher Education [PDF]
, 2008 Presents case studies from Ford's initiative to support efforts to transform universities abroad to enable poor, minority, and otherwise underrepresented students to obtain a university degree.
Irma Rosa Martinez +4 more
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Fairness at Risk: Where Bias Emerges in Machine Learning
Expert Systems, Volume 43, Issue 6, June 2026.ABSTRACT Artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) now shape decisions in healthcare, finance and security, but they can reproduce historical prejudice and inequality. Bias in training data and in model implementation can amplify harm, especially for racial and gender minorities.
Otavio de Paula Albuquerque +2 more
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