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Panorama de estudios sobre las poblaciones de origen africano en Colombia. Influencias, tendencias y contextos

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2010
The studies on Afro-descendent populations in Colombia have undergone substantial changes over the past few years due to an academic circle which produced them. However, they are also related to an evolution of the social and political contexts, changing
Carlos Agudelo
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Discrimination in Latin America: An elephant in the room? [PDF]

, 2007
This paper surveys evidence on discrimination in Latin America and shows that there is a widespread perception of discrimination, especially against the poor, the uneducated and those who lack connections. The channels through which discrimination occurs
Chong, Alberto, Ñopo, Hugo
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Connecting tradition and technology: The digitization of the ethnobotanical collection at the Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden

PLANTS, PEOPLE, PLANET, EarlyView.
The digitization of RBetno (JBRJ) represents a step forward for biodiversity conservation in Brazil. Aligned with the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (Target 2, 2020–2030), this project documents the use of plants, including traditional knowledge and vernacular names, with a focus on the Atlantic Forest and Amazon.
Viviane S. Fonseca‐Kruel, Carlos E. A. Coimbra Jr., Luis Alexandre Estevão da Silva, Felipe Alves Oliveira, Maria Paula Vasconcelos Mesquita, Mariana Taniguchi, Rafaela Campostrini Forzza   +6 more
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L’anthropologie brésilienne face aux politiques d’action affirmative (note de recherche) [PDF]

, 2008
Dans la première moitié du XXe siècle, les anthropologues, nommément Gilberto Freyre, ont forgé des outils interprétatifs cohérents du Brésil. Depuis les années 1970, les revendications concernant les identités culturelles, l’histoire et aussi la ...
d’Adesky, Jacques
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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, EarlyView.
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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Afro-descendant lands in South America contribute to biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation

Communications Earth & Environment
Over 130 million people in Latin America identify as Afro-descendants, many of whom inhabit lands with potential to mitigate biodiversity loss and climate change.
Sushma Shrestha Sangat, Martha Rosero, Erik Olsson, A. Justin Nowakowski, Jonathan Drescher-Lehman, Patrick R. Roehrdanz, Monica L. Noon, Nickolas McManus, Stephen G. Perz, Marcela Angel, Joana M. Krieger, Cameryn Brock, Bruno Coutinho, Christian Martinez, Leo R. Douglas, Curtis Bernard, Loes Trustfull, Daniela Raik, Sebastian Troëng, Kelvin Alie   +19 more
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“There Are Places Full of Beauty”: Desettling High School Students' Scientific Writing

Science Education, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study contributes to desettling and expanding expectations about the forms of scientific language that belong in students' scientific writing. The primary empirical focus is the analysis of 52 high school student abstracts articulating community‐based investigations, submitted as part of their participation in a student conference in a ...
Alejandra Frausto Aceves
wiley   +1 more source

African-American Women in Reconstruction in the Shenandoah Valley

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2014
American History textbooks and public history sites of the eastern United States are replete with fact and fiction about the American Civil War (1861-1865). The Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia, in the northwestern part of the state, for example, saw
Ann Denkler
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Seroprevalence of rodent-borne viruses in Afro-descendent communities in Brazil [PDF]

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2019
During the Brazilian slavery period, many African migrants were brought to the American continent. Historically, some of these migrants escaped from the Brazilian gold mines and farms to which they had been brought and settled in remote valleys and this was the main mode of resistance to the slavery system.
Jorlan Fernandes, Thayssa Alves Coelho, Renata Carvalho de Oliveira, Livia Stefânia Alves Lima Guedes, Bernardo Rodrigues Teixeira, Alexandro Guterres, Christian Niel, Silvana C. Levis, Barbara Vieira Lago, Ana Rita Coimbra Motta-Castro, Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos   +10 more
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Who Does Bogotá “Care” for? Care Blocks, Care Workers and the Sustainable Development Goals

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper critically examines Bogotá's District Care System within the framework of urban social sustainability and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Focusing on the Care Blocks (Manzanas del Cuidado), it employs a mixed‐methods approach—legal analysis, interviews, testimonies, surveys, and InfoCuidado data—to explore the paradox of a
Valentina Montoya‐Robledo, Berta Fernández‐Gallego   +1 more
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