Quilombos in Brazil and the Americas: Black Resistance in Historical Perspective

Silva, Givânia Maria da; Souza, Bárbara Oliveira

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“…Brazilian quilombos ( quilombola as an adjective) have been defined as rural semi-isolated remnant communities that were formed by former black slaves originally during the time of slavery and persisted after abolition in 1888 [ 10 ]. Approximately 5972 such communities officially still exist nationwide, in which the inhabitants have preserved their African culture.…”

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“…Approximately 5972 such communities officially still exist nationwide, in which the inhabitants have preserved their African culture. Quilombola individuals have traditionally maintained themselves through subsistence agriculture [ 10 ]. The semi-isolation of these communities has been associated with their remote location, historical segregation implemented by European immigrant settlers, and the lack of specific public health policies [ 11 , 12 ].…”

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One Health Approach in Serosurvey of Toxoplasma gondii in Former Black Slave (Quilombola) Communities in Southern Brazil and Among Their Dogs

Panazzolo,

Kmetiuk,

Domingues

et al. 2023

TropicalMed

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Brazilian quilombos are rural semi-isolated remnant communities of former black slaves and their descendants who traditionally maintained themselves through archaic subsistence livestock and agriculture practices and historically lacked specific public health policies. Although such individuals and their dogs may be exposed to zoonotic pathogens such as Toxoplasma gondii, no study to date has assessed these human-animal populations together. Populations in four different Brazilian quilombos in southern Brazil were evaluated. Overall, 93/208 people (44.7%) and 63/100 dogs (63.0%) were seropositive for IgG anti-T. gondii antibodies by indirect immunofluorescent antibody test (IFAT), 4/208 (1.9%) human samples seropositive for IgM anti-T. gondii antibodies, with a human-dog seropositivity ratio for IgG of 0.71. Quilombola individuals ingesting game meat were 2.43-fold more likely (95% CI: 1.05–5.9) to be seropositive. No risk factors were associated with seropositivity among dogs, thus suggesting that their exposure to T. gondii was random. Surprisingly, our research group had previously found an inverted human-dog ratio for T. gondii seropositivity of 2.54 in the urban area of a nearby major city. Because consumption of raw/undercooked game meat by quilombola individuals may have contributed to higher exposure, higher overall seroprevalence among dogs may have also indicated interaction with wildlife. Although these dogs may hunt wildlife without their owners’ awareness, the higher dog seropositivity may also be related to feeding from discarded food in the community or backyard livestock animals and drinking surface water contaminated with oocysts. Thus, wildlife cannot be singled out as the reason, and future studies should consider sampling water, soil, wildlife, and livestock tissues, to fully establish the source of infection in dogs herein.

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One Health Approach in Serosurvey of Toxoplasma gondii in Former Black Slave (Quilombola) Communities in Southern Brazil and Among Their Dogs

Panazzolo,

Kmetiuk,

Domingues

et al. 2023

TropicalMed

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“…The main victims of primitive accumulation of labor have been the enslaved African and African-Brazilian people, but also the Indigenous peoples; the latter, in turn, have been the main victims of primitive accumulation of land , together too with Africans and African-Brazilians who fled slavery and took hold of the land by establishing quilombos (da Silva & Souza, 2022). Needless to say, all these people have merged somewhat in different places at different times.…”

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Development Paths in a Settler Society: The Challenges of the Communist Movement in Brazil

Gissoni,

Pires,

Carvalheira

2024

Agrarian South: Journal of Political Economy: A triannual Journ

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This article addresses the challenges faced by the Communist movement in Brazil by revisiting the contradictions inherited from a colonial mode of accumulation. This was originally a class system based on slavery and composed of the metropolitan colonizer, the settler, and the colonized class. After independence in 1822, which entailed a settler rebellion against the metropolitan colonizer and the continuing exploitation of the colonized, the settlers reproduced the colonial mode of accumulation internally and oversaw the transition to a capitalist mode of production. An interclass, bourgeois–labor alliance occurred in the mid-twentieth century but was limited to the ranks of the settlers and underpinned by the myth of “racial democracy.” It included a degree of confrontation with imperialism coupled with industrial development but reproduced the colonial mode of accumulation internally. This article sheds light on the contradictions that followed, including the military regime installed in 1964 and the neo-colonial transition in the 1990s, under finance capital. In light of the bourgeoisie’s shifting alliances at the expense of the sovereign aspirations of the working people, an interclass alliance has become impossible. Only a truly popular political project is capable of liberating the nation and that is the only one the Communists should espouse.

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Decolonial and Postcolonial Feminisms

Munyoka

2023

Advances in Religious and Cultural Studies

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Decolonial and postcolonial feminism has ushered in a historic shift in feminist discourse, confronting dominant Eurocentric ideologies and campaigning for an inclusive and holistic understanding and conceptualization of oppression, gender, and power. To strengthen the agency of African women and challenge the predominance of western conceptions, this chapter explores decolonial and post-colonial feminism within the contexts of the global south. The chapter also explores the use of decolonial and postcolonial feminism in indigenous movements and policy advocacy across the African continent, offering a synopsis of the drawbacks of western feminist perspectives in capturing the diverse lived experiences of African women, scrutinizing the ongoing impact of neo-colonialism, and harnessing indigenous African feminist epistemologies. This chapter suggests a decolonized and postcolonial feminist movement that promotes gender equality, empowerment, and autonomy for African women by opposing patriarchy and neo-colonialism while embracing indigenous feminist epistemologies.

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Quilombos in Brazil and the Americas: Black Resistance in Historical Perspective

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One Health Approach in Serosurvey of Toxoplasma gondii in Former Black Slave (Quilombola) Communities in Southern Brazil and Among Their Dogs

One Health Approach in Serosurvey of Toxoplasma gondii in Former Black Slave (Quilombola) Communities in Southern Brazil and Among Their Dogs

Development Paths in a Settler Society: The Challenges of the Communist Movement in Brazil

Decolonial and Postcolonial Feminisms

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