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HLA-E polymorphisms in an Afro-descendant Southern Brazilian population [PDF]
Human Immunology, 2013 HLA-E is a non-classical I (Ib) gene which has limited polymorphism and low levels of tissue expression. Currently, 11 alleles are described in the literature with only three protein products. In the present study we investigated HLA-E gene variations at exons 2 and 3 and calculated allele, genotype and haplotype frequencies in a sample of 152 ...
Luana, Carvalho dos Santos +7 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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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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Pemphigus is associated with KIR3DL2 expression levels and provides evidence that KIR3DL2 may bind HLA-A3 and A11 in vivo. [PDF]
, 2015 This is the peer reviewed version of the following article:Augusto, D. G., O'Connor, G. M., Lobo-Alves, S. C., Bass, S., Martin, M. P., Carrington, M., . . . Petzl-Erler, M. L. (2015).
Augusto, Danillo G. +7 more
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Prevalence of common hemoglobin variants in an afro-descendent Ecuadorian population [PDF]
BMC Research Notes, 2013 Abstract Background Hemoglobinopathies are among the most studied and frequent pathologies. These genetic disorders are considered a very important health care threat in many tropical countries. Ecuador is a tropical Latin-American country with an important presence of afro-descendants (7.2%).
Yamila Domínguez +4 more
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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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discussing 'black' approximations in the South Atlantic [PDF]
, 2012 The article links reflections about Brazilian race relations with institutional transnational dialogues between Brazil and ‘Africa’. I point out that although racial/cultural mixture and the ‘brown’ census category have traditionally reflected much of ...
Cicalo, André
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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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FundamentosThe paper adopts the Common Pool Resource and Common Property Regime Theories to analyze how two Afro-descendant communities in Brazilian Amazon have built different structures of power-sharing, as evidenced by their self-governance, self-organization ...
Mário Vasconcellos Sobrinho +2 more
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Gender &History, EarlyView.ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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