Black Social Movements in Latin America: From Monoculture Mestizaje to Multiculturalism ed. by Jean Muteba Rahier (review)

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Black Social Movements in Latin America: From Monoculture Mestizaje to Multiculturalism ed. by Jean Muteba Rahier

Black Social Movements in Latin America: From Monoculture Mestizaje to Multiculturalism. Edited by Jean Muteba Rahier. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Pp. ix, 250. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $90.00 cloth.

Introduction: Black Social Movements in Latin America: From Monocultural Mestizaje and "Invisibility" to Multiculturalism and State Corporatism/Co-optation
Jean Muteba Rahier

Part I: Setting Up the Stage

Afro In/Exclusion, Resistance, and the "Progressive" State: (De) Colonial Struggles, Questions, and Reflections
Catherine Walsh

International Organizations and the Human Rights of Afro-Latin Americans: The Case of UNESCO
Pierre-Michel Fontaine

Part II: A Focus on Central America

Garifuna Activism and the Corporatist Honduran State since the 2009 Coup
Mark Anderson

The Afro-Guatemalan Political Mobilization: Between Identity Construction Processes, Global Influences, and Institutionalization
Carlos Agudelo [End Page 95]

Part III: A Focus on the Andean Region

The Quest for a Counter-Space in the Colombian Pacific Coast Region: Toward Alternative Black Territorialities or Co-optation by Dominant Power?
Ulrich Oslender

Multicultural Politics for Afro-Colombians: An Articulation "Without Guarantees"
Roosbelinda Cárdenas

The Afro-Ecuadorian Social Movement: Between Empowerment and Co-optation
Carlos de la Torre and Jhon Antón Sánchez

Does Still Relatively Invisible Mean Less Likely to Be Co-opted? Reflections on the Afro-Peruvian Case
Shane Greene

Interview with María Alexandra Ocles Padilla, Former Minister, Secretaría de Pueblos, Movimientos Sociales y Participación Ciudadana, Ecuador
Jean Muteba Rahier with Mamyrah A. Dougé-Prosper

Part IV: A Focus on the Brazilian Experiences

State and Social Movements in Brazil: An Analysis of the Participation of Black Intellectuals in State Agencies
Carlos Benedito Rodrigues da Silva

From the Black Councils to the Federal Special Secretariat for the Adoption of Policies that Promote Racial Equality (SEPPIR): New Identities of the Black Brazilian Movement
Joselina da Silva

Interview with Maria Inês Barbosa, Former Vice-Minister, Secretaria Especial de Políticas de Promoção de Igualdade Racial (SEPPIR), Brazil
Jean Muteba Rahier

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