Black Lives Matter in Latin America: Continuities in Racism, Cross-National Resistance and Mobilization in the Americas

This volume considers how Black activism in Latin America has taken place in varying arenas such as in the academy, digital platforms, and traditional forms of activism. Contributors also examine the impact of activism on policy advocacy and legislation, as well as groups who the Black Lives Matter movement focus on such as women and immigrants. The first part of the book focuses on making Black Lives Matter in academic studies, governmental data, and politics. The next section focuses on the impact of Black activism on policy and legislation in Brazil, Colombia, and Peru. Black activists have been fighting for Black lives throughout Latin America and their struggles have not been in vain, although less policy change has occurred in Peru. The last section finds that social media has allowed for more independent forms of Black activism in Brazil and Cuba.

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.