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Intersectionality and Birth in Latin America: A Research Protocol on Maternal Health of Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Women in La Guajira, Colombia

Social Sciences
This article presents a research protocol focusing on the maternal health of Indigenous wayuu and Afro-descendant women in the region of La Guajira, Colombia.
Mariana Anginho Évora
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Afro-Latinos in Latin America and Considerations for U.S. Policy [PDF]

, 2008
[Excerpt] During its second session, the 110th Congress is likely to maintain an interest in the situation of Afro-Latinos in Latin America, particularly the plight of Afro-Colombians affected by the armed conflict in Colombia. In recent years, people of
Seelke, Clare Ribando
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contemporary struggles for land in Brazil and Colombia [PDF]

, 2013
The struggles for land discussed in this paper have occurred in contexts characterized by some improvement of laws and policies designed to protect ethnic and cultural minorities in Brazil and Colombia, following the “multicultural turn” in international
Backhouse, Maria, Baquero Melo, Jairo, Costa, Sérgio   +2 more
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Symbols of Climate Action: Audit Labor and the Production of Carbon Credits

Economic Anthropology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Voluntary carbon markets (VCMs) are promoted as tools for financing climate mitigation, yet their effectiveness and credibility remain contested. This article examines how carbon credits are produced and destabilized as symbols of climate action, emphasizing the forms of ecological and audit labor that sustain their legitimacy.
Diego Silva Garzón
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Archiving Human Rights Documentation: The Promise of the Post-Custodial Approach in Latin America [PDF]

, 2016
Latin American ...
Polk, Theresa E.
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Desegregationist Pan‐African Spiritual Strivings: Du Bois, the Black Church and the Critique of Imperialism*

Journal of Religious History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article argues that W. E. B. Du Bois grounded his seminal conceptualisation of “the Negro church” in a Pan‐Africanist challenge to how Christian reformers and missionaries' usage of “Darkest Africa” as a metaphor for modern urban vice and poverty denigrated Africa and the African diaspora while promoting a segregated, imperialist version ...
Kai Parker
wiley   +1 more source

Ações afirmativas para afrodescendentes no debate do parlamento uruguaio

Afro-Ásia, 2017
Neste trabalho, são examinados os argumentos discutidos no Parlamento Nacional uruguaio durante o processo que chegou à sanção da Lei nº 19.122, Afrodescendentes. Normas para favorecer sua participação nas áreas educativas e trabalhistas.
Monica Olaza López
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Argentina to Texas: The Value of Exchange [PDF]

, 2009
Latin American ...
Samples, Tim R.
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Contested natures: Coca, the War on Drugs, and ecologies of difference in Colombia's Afro-Pacific

Journal of Political Ecology, 2019
While there is growing consensus that the 'war on drugs' has failed to decrease drug consumption in the Global North, we know much less about how drug production has impacted communities of the Global South.
Alexander Huezo
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