TY - JOUR
T1 - The struggle for black land rights in Brazil
T2 - An insider's view on quilombos and the quilombo land movement
AU - Bowen, Merle L.
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9. In early 2008, federal councilman Valdir Colatto (PMDB/SC) introduced two Bills in the Brazilian House of Representatives proposing changes in the process of granting land titles. Bill of Law 44/2007 aims at abrogating Presidential Decree 4.887/2003, arguing that this issue should be ruled by legal norms approved by the Legislative power. Bill of Law 326/2007 wants to take away from the Ministry of Agrarian Development, through INCRA, the competence to carry out administrative procedures to grant land titles and to have the Ministry of Culture analyze the matter.
PY - 2010/7
Y1 - 2010/7
N2 - In recent years, land movements in many countries of the Global South have played a pivotal role in pressuring their government to pass new land legislation that recognizes both customary and ethnic land rights. In Brazil, Afro-Brazilian land activists lobbied the government to include protection of the territorial and cultural integrity of black rural communities in the 1988 constitution. Since the mid-1990s, the national quilombo movement has effectively mobilized rural black communities around the issues of landownership and the regularization of quilombo territories.
AB - In recent years, land movements in many countries of the Global South have played a pivotal role in pressuring their government to pass new land legislation that recognizes both customary and ethnic land rights. In Brazil, Afro-Brazilian land activists lobbied the government to include protection of the territorial and cultural integrity of black rural communities in the 1988 constitution. Since the mid-1990s, the national quilombo movement has effectively mobilized rural black communities around the issues of landownership and the regularization of quilombo territories.
KW - Afro-Brazilian identity
KW - Brazilian Black Movement
KW - black rural communities
KW - collective land title
KW - quilombo land movement
KW - quilombo territories
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U2 - 10.1080/17528631.2010.481939
DO - 10.1080/17528631.2010.481939
M3 - Comment/debate
AN - SCOPUS:79957728328
SN - 1752-8631
VL - 3
SP - 147
EP - 168
JO - African and Black Diaspora
JF - African and Black Diaspora
IS - 2
ER -