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Traditional Excluding Forces: A Review of the Quantitative Literature on the Economic Situation of Indigenous Peoples, Afro-descendants, and People Living with Disability [PDF]
Latin American Politics and Society, 2007 Abstract Unequal income distribution in Latin America and the Caribbean is linked to unequal distributions of human and physical assets and differential access to markets and services. These circumstances, and the accompanying social tensions, need to be understood in terms of traditional fragmenting forces; the sectors of the population ...
Laura Ripani +2 more
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Autonomy, Indigenous Peoples, and Afro-Descendants in Colombia
Journal of Autonomy and Security Studies, 2019 The article analyzes how indigenous and Afro-descendant communities achieved participation in the National Constitutional Assembly in 1991 in Colombia and how this process influenced the definition of new territorial institutions in which territorial autonomy and self-rule were successfully granted – against all odds. How did this happen?
Mauricio Romero Vidal, Juan David Niño
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The cultural-political category of Amefricanity
AlternautasIn this original contribution published in 1988, Brazilian Black intellectual Lélia Gonzalez develops the concept of Amefricanity (amefricanidade) as a politically and culturally relevant category to address the material,
Livia de Souza Lima
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, 2021 In 1991, Colombia crafted a new Constitution that, after decades of ignorance, recognized the existence of ethnic minorities within the country. Special rights were given to the indigenous population while disregarding the even larger minority, afro-descendants.
Ekwall, Emma
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Land, 2022 The 2030 Agenda has influenced the design of public policies in Colombia and other countries in the region, but there are many gaps in the way a global policy can be interpreted and adapted to the territories.
Juan Antonio Senent-De Frutos +1 more
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Job insecurity in Afro-descendant and indigenous populations aggravated by the armed conflict in Colombia [PDF]
, 2021 Este artículo es fruto de un proceso investigativo que se desarrolla en el contexto del conflicto armado, diversas vulneraciones que ha padecido la comunidad afrodescendiente y los pueblos indígenas que, al ser desplazados por este fenómeno bélico, han
Mondragón Duarte, Sergio Luis +1 more
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Latin American International Law and Afro-Descendant Peoples
AJIL Unbound, 2022 After the Third World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia, and Related Intolerance, held by the United Nations in Durban, South Africa, in 2001, an important movement emerged. The African diaspora communities in the Americas, or “Afro-descendants,” as they prefer to self-identify, began to seek legal recognition in the context ...
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Advancing Professional Development for Teachers in Intercultural Education
Education Sciences, 2020 In Latin America, intercultural education aims to acknowledge the cultural, ethnic, and linguistic diversity of its citizens, and to advance the efforts to dismantle the oppression of such diversity, particularly that of Indigenous and Afro-descendant ...
Regina Cortina, Amanda K. Earl
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Fighting racism in monocultural university systems and institutions in Latin America
Alternautas, 2022 Racism, as both the founding ideology and regime of power constitutive of the Modern World, is a crucial cause of pervasive inequalities in all Latin American societies.
Daniel Mato
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, 2023 In the face of climate change, arable land loss, and food system degradation, Indigenous and Afro-Descendant communities are frontline groups leading agrobiodiversity conservation.
Veronica Limeberry (17759772)
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