Black Lives Matter in Latin America

Cloves Pereira Oliveira is Professor and Color of Bahia Coordinator, Federal University of Bahia, Brazil. Oliveira is a Professor in the Department of Political Science, the Graduate Program in Interdisciplinary Studies on Women, Gender and Feminism and the Master's Program in Political Science at the Federal University of Bahia (UFBA).Gladys Lanier Mitchell-Walthour is Dan T. Blue Endowed Chair of Political Science, North Carolina Central University, USA. Mitchell-Walthour is the past president of the Brazilian Studies Association (2018-2020) and the National Co-coordinator of the US Network for Democracy in Brazil (2019-2022). She is a Board Member of the Washington Brazil Office. She is author of The Politics of Survival: Black Women Social Welfare Beneficiaries in Brazil and the United States (2023).Minion K. C. Morrison is Professor Emeritus, University of Missouri-Columbia, USA; Affiliate Professor, Joe Biden School, University of Delaware, USA. Morrison is past president of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists (1998-99). He was previously Professor and Head of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Mississippi State University. He is the recipient of the 2016 Lillian Smith Book Award (2015) and the Aaron Henry Lifetime Achievement Award, Mississippi NAACP.

• Chapter 1: The Race and Democracy Project and Black Lives Matter: Continuities in Racism, Cross-National Resistance and Mobilization in the Americas.- Chapter 2: Racial Politics: Central Themes in Academic Production in the Social Sciences in Brazil (2012-2019).- Chapter 3: Sophisticated Violence Against Blacks in the Time of Affirmative Action:  Previsions of Violent Racial Conflict or Academic Terror?.- Chapter 4: Covid-19 and Necropolitics: The Absence of Intersectionality (Race and Gender) in Data on the Pandemic in Brazil- Chapter 5: The Diversity of Representation: Gender, Race and Ethnicity in the 2020 Brazilian municipal elections.- Chapter 6: The New Bahian Enigma: Why Hasn't Black Rome Ever Elected a Black Mayor? A Case Study of the Campaigns of Edvaldo Brito and Mário Kertész in the 1985 Municipal Elections.- Chapter 7: The Electoral Political Participation of the Afro-Colombian, Black, Raizal, and Palenquera Population and the Construction of a Different Political Culture in Colombia.- Chapter 8: The Black Movement and Institutional Activism in Colômbia (1991-2018).- Chapter 9: Afroperuvian Citizenship: An Unfulfilled Promise after 200 years of Republican Independence.- Chapter 10: Affirmative Action for Afro Descendants in the Uruguayan Parliament.- Chapter 11: The Construction of Racial Equality Policy at the Municipal Level in Brazil.- Chapter 12: Between Business, Solidarity mobilization and Political Participation: Ethnic Entrepreneurship in the New Black Diaspora in São Paulo.- Chapter 13      Decolonial Antiracist Feminist Digital Activism: Naming Carolina Maria de Jesus, Lélia González and Marielle Franco on Twitter.- Chapter 13: Decolonial Antiracist Feminist Digital Activism: Naming Carolina Maria de Jesus, Lélia González and Marielle Franco on Twitter.- Chapter 14: Alternative Black  Media during Repression: Black Brazilian YouTubers Fight for Social Justice during the Far-Right Era.- Chapter 15: Palenqueras and Quilombolas: Black Femininities, Work and Conviviality.- Chapter 16: Who Are the Black Revolutionaries? Resistance in Cuba and the State Boundaries that Endure. Chapter 17: Conclusion.