The leadership of Black women plays a central role in the construction of life in Latin America. Despite racism, patriarchy and classism, Black women in the continent have created alternative paths to liberate themselves, their families, and communities. Through different platforms such as activism, intellectual scholarship, religion, and culture, Black women in the diaspora claim their full existence as human beings in a global and transdisciplinary process. 

The Brazil-Peru meeting was created in 2012, aiming to expand the access of knowledge about Peru to a Brazilian audience.  In our 4th edition, we expand beyond borders and embrace "amefricanity" as a political act today. The Amefrican Dialogue colloquium and Brazil-Peru meeting challenges national borders, shedding light on Black women activism as a global practice of solidarity towards liberation.

The panel will discuss leadership of Black women in claiming territorial rights, and their work as community organizers against environmental racism in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. 

• Emilia Maria de Souza - Vice President of Associação de Moradores do Horto (AMAHOR), Horto Community

• Fátima Amorim - Community Organizer from Estradinha community.

• Carolina Pires Câmara - PhD candidate in Sociology and Law (Universidade Federal Fluminense). Activist-researcher in both communities.

Moderator -  Ronilso Pacheco

M.A. candidate at the Union Theological Seminary,  Columbia University. Professor and activist in Human Rights, Anti-racism and Religious Freedom struggles. 

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This event is co-sponsored by the Institute of Latin American Studies, the Transnational Black Feminisms working group at the Center for the Study of Social Difference, and CALID - Cultura na América Latina e Indentidades na Diáspora.