"Brazil’s quilombola communities today
are made up of the descendants of the African slaves who originally founded them," the Inter Press Service's Mario Osava writes. "Similar settlements were established throughout the Americas
in regions colonised by Europeans.
"The greatest threat currently faced by these communities in Brazil is
related to land ownership issues.
"In the Ribeira Valley, there have been at least 59 quilombola communities
identified, but only 15 have been formally recognised as such, and of these, only six have been granted land ownership deeds.
And even in the latter, community members are still waiting for the eviction of 'third parties' -- non-Afro-Brazilians
who have occupied parts of quilombola territories and must now be compensated by the government before they will leave."
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The View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian past, their
lives in the present, and their hopes
for the future
by Karen Juanita Carrillo
The View from Chocó: The Afro-Colombian past, their lives in the present, and their hopes for the future
is an introduction to the lives of Blacks in Colombia. Afro-Colombians live in a resource-rich yet remote region of Colombia.
They only recently won recognition as one of that nation's distinct ethnic groups. But Colombia's on-going civil war has
led many Afro-Colombians to reach even farther than their nation's borders for recognition: many have made their way to the
United States as refugees and as political activists working for peace in their homeland. The View
from Chocó introduces the lives and struggles of a too-long neglected community of Colombian
Blacks.
Raise Your Brown Black Fist is a collection of essays written
by Kevin Alberto Sabio during his time as a Contributing Writer for an online magazine.
The book combines his two article series, "Black
vs Brown" and "Black Thoughts: A Political Ideological Perspective for Afrolatinos"
into one volume, plus three other miscellaneous entries.The bookis currently available
through his publisher, AuthorHouse.
Click the logo above to view and purchase the book.
