Quilombo Essays

political discourses, in Brazil and elsewhere, are not likely to. Examining “Quilombismo” in relation to the quilombo clause and resulting land disputes highlights the extent to which the philosophy particularly its cultural dimensions reflects the situation of rural Afro-Brazilians (Nascimento A. d., 1989). This examination also reflects the implications of Nascimento’s interpretation of the quilombos for race relations and the politics of recognition in Brazil more

Quilombos are communities organized by fugitive slaves in the colonial period of Brazil and they exist until today as a symbol of the resistance and as a settlement of African descendants. Nascimento considers the quilombos as alternative forms of social organizations, both they and the slums. To the author, to study them was not only a way to recover the history

harmony post-abolition. According to Vilela and Fernández, "Nascimento draws attention to masked racism, genocide against Black people and the multiple attempts to whiten the population". Nascimento’s concept of Quilombismo draws on the history of Quilombos (communities of escaped slaves that resisted colonial rule and maintained African cultural practices). These communities served as models for a more just and democratic society, embracing collective and cooperative principles contrary to capitalist

Prodhi Manisha COCO 5 What are the forms of resistance available to slaves and what purposes do they serve? The study of the complex system of slavery has remained critically insufficient due to the predominant treatment of the subject from a legislative and socioeconomic perspective localized in an external, corporeal world. In “The Phenomenology of Spirit”, the German philosopher G.W.F Hegel underscored the imperative to understand slavery as a cognitive and incorporeal system through the elucidation