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The Miracle of Resistance: Lessons from Rio’s Successful Urban Quilombos & Indigenous Groups

By Désirée Poets • September 15, 2014

Clique aqui para Português Brazil’s colonial past has created a socio-political landscape in which issues of race and ethnicity remain problematic. Today, indigenous and black groups continue to resist the discriminatory social order left by the […]

#GentrificationWatch

Two of Rio’s Urban Quilombos and the Current Status of Afro-Brazilians’ Fight for Land Rights

By Claire Gordon • August 6, 2014

Clique aqui para Português Historically defined as communities of fugitive slaves, quilombos represented areas of resistance and freedom for Afro-descendent Brazilians in the last country in the Western hemisphere to abolish slavery. Under the 1988 […]

Quilombo Sacomã leadership present the case to INCRA anthropologist.
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Quilombo Alert: Meeting Discusses the Future of Quilombos

By Thaís Rosa Pinheiro • Translation by Tom Winterbottom • November 8, 2013

Clique aqui para Português The first Quilombo Alert meeting, held by the Justice Forum and AQUILERJ (the Quilombo Association of Rio de Janeiro), took place on October 25 at the Sacopã Quilombo. The Sacopã Quilombo […]

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Quilombos to Discuss Territorial Sustainability During Rio+20 People’s Summit

By Alana Gandra • Translation by Elizabeth Gladding • March 31, 2012

Clique aqui para Português For the original article in Portuguese by Alana Gandra published in Agência Brasil click here.  Defense of land title and the sustainability of Quilombo territories is top priority for the Quilombola communities* […]

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