Black and green: Afro-Colombians, development, and nature in the Pacific lowlands

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Asher,Kiran (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2009
    WorldCat URL:
    http://www.worldcat.org/isbn/9780822344834
    Published:
    Durham: Duke University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    ISBN:
    9780822344872 (cloth); 0822344874 (cloth); 9780822344834 (pbk); 0822344831 (pbk);
    Subject Term:
    History, Blacks, Pacific Coast, Social conditions, Colombia, Civilization, Civil rights, African influences, Race identity, Civil Rights Movement, and Pacific Coast (Colombia)
    Notes:
    247 p, Argues that development processes and social movements shape each other in uneven and paradoxical ways. She bases her argument on ethnographic analysis of the black social movements that emerged from and interacted with political and economic changes in Colombia's Pacific lowlands, or Chocó region, in the 1990s.

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