...Micol Seigel Abstract This reflection explores two loose social formations in contemporary Brazil that offer potentially inspiring political models. One consists of queer, Afro-descended activists invoking quilombos to curate welcoming spaces for community engagement and support. The other...

... exercise that we need to engage in. What we in Reaja think, the history that we are interested in recounting, is that the military police came about in the nineteenth century to fight against a [runaway slave community called a] quilombo that was headed by a woman named Zeferina. This quilombo...

... Kabengele , Nascimento Elisa Larkin , and Nascimento Valdecir . O quilombismo: Documentos de uma militância pan-africanista . 3rd rev. ed. São Paulo : Perspectiva , 2019 . Nascimento Beatriz . “ O conceito de quilombo e a resistência cultural negra .” Afrodiáspora 3 , nos. 6...

... is the Quilombolas movement, or the landless descendents of escaped African slaves in Brazil. For the past twenty years Quilombolas have worked to regain control over their ancestral land, called quilombos (a settlement of escaped African slaves), from commercial farms...

... are a more specific case study of the connections between Imbangala lineage patterns in Angola and the lineage patterns (both symbolic and real) of runaway slaves in Brazil’s most famous quilombo, Palmares. Week eleven addresses issues of gender and sexuality. Barbara Bush’s Slave Women...

... Marcos evokes the long history of marronage in opposition to Western epistemologies in the Lusophone world that render Blackness “unthinkable” and “inherently foreign” and thus make Black people appear ineligible for citizenship. She draws on the idea of the quilombo as a historical place of refuge...

... quilombos (runaway communities) in the more remote parts of the interior. Similarly, many former tribal Indians fled the agricultural zones, thereby destroying the last vestiges of the eighteenth-century directorate system, one of barely disguised forced labor. Thus a major consequence...

... environmental activism and brought some attention to the region. The Chocó is under fire! The territory has its own symbolic interpretation for women in the Black Pacific. Besides being palenques , quilombos , mambises , mocambos , ladeiras , or whatever other term used to recognize self-liberated...