Black Social Movements in Latin America From Monocultural Mestizaje to Multiculturalism

This collection of essays explores the transformations of the political landscapes within which black social movements in Latin America have been operating since the end of the 1970s. Evaluating black social movements in their various national contexts, the essays reveal that these transformations have mostly consisted in the passage from state-sponsored ideological 'monocultural mestizaje' to state-managed multiculturalism and corporatism or co-optation. As the contributions to this volume show, black personalities and leaders of social movements were incorporated within the apparatus of the state. These new situations have rendered Afro-Latino political struggles more complex, at times even heightening the antagonism they encounter.

Jean Muteba Rahier is Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies at Florida International University, USA, where he is also Director of the African and African Diaspora Studies Program.

1. Introduction: Black Social Movements in Latin America: From Monocultural Mestizaje and 'Invisibility' to Multiculturalism and State Corporatism/Cooptation; J.M.Rahier
PART I: SETTING UP THE STAGE
2. Afro In/Exclusion, Resistance, and the 'Progressive' State: (De)colonial Struggles, Questions, and Reflections; C.Walsh
3. International Organizations and the Human Rights of Afro Latin Americans: The Case of UNESCO; P.M.Fontaine
PART II: A FOCUS ON CENTRAL AMERICA
4. Garifuna Activism and the Corporatist Honduran State since the 2009 Coup; M.Anderson
5. The Afro-Guatemalan Political Mobilization: Between Identity Construction Processes, Global Influences, and Institutionalization; C.Agudelo
PART III: A FOCUS ON THE ANDEAN REGION
6. The Quest for a Counter-Space in the Colombian Pacific Coast Region: Towards Alternative Black Territorialities or Cooptation by Dominant Power?; U.Oslender
7. Multicultural Politics for Afro-Colombians: An Articulation 'Without Guarantees'; R.Cardenas
8. The Afroecuadorian Social Movement: Between Empowerment and Cooptation; C.Torre and J.A.Sanchez
9. Does 'Still Relatively Invisible' Mean 'Less Likely to be Co-opted'? Reflections on the Afro-Peruvian Case; S.Greene
10. Interview of María Alexandra Ocles Padilla, Former Minister, Secretaría de Pueblos, Movimientos Sociales y Participación Ciudadana, Ecuador; J.M.Rahier and M.Prosper
PART IV: A FOCUS ON THE BRAZILIAN EXPERIENCES
11. State and Social Movements in Brazil: An Analysis of the Participation of Black Intellectuals in State Agencies; C.B.R. - Silva
12. From the Black Councils to the Federal Special Secretary for the Adoption of Policies that Promote Racial Equality (SEPPIR): New Identities of the Black Brazilian Movement; J.Silva
13. Interview of Maria Inês Barbosa, Former Vice-Minister, Secretaria Especial de Políticas de Promoção da Igualdade Racial (SEPPIR), Brazil; J.M.Rahier