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The Quilombo Activists’ Archive: A Transcontinental Partnership

August 20, 2019

BY EDWARD SHORE CARLITOS DA SILVA was an activist and community leader from São Pedro, one of 88 settlements founded by descendants of escaped slaves known in Portuguese as quilombos, located in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil’s Ribeira Valley (Vale da Ribeira). During the early 1980s, amid an … [Read more...] about The Quilombo Activists’ Archive: A Transcontinental Partnership

Tagged With: Black Diaspora, Black Diaspora Archive, Edward Shore, Human Rights, land rights, LLILAS Benson, post-custodial archives, quilombolas, quilombos, Vale do Ribeira Brazil

Brazilian Roças: A Legacy in Peril

August 24, 2017

BY EDWARD SHORE Vanessa de França is a farmer and activist from São Pedro, one of 88 quilombos, rural black communities descended from fugitive slaves, that call the Atlantic forest of São Paulo state and neighboring Paraná their home. Two hundred years ago, de França’s ancestors escaped the gold … [Read more...] about Brazilian Roças: A Legacy in Peril

Tagged With: Black Diaspora, Human Rights, land rights, maroon communities, Quilombo, race in Brazil, Student Research, sustainable agriculture

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