The cultural-political category of Amefricanity

Livia de Souza Lima

doi:10.31273/4efczn62

The cultural-political category of Amefricanity

Authors

Livia de Souza Lima https://orcid.org/0009-0005-7708-8244 (unauthenticated)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.31273/4efczn62

Keywords:

Amefricanity, Afro-descendants, indigenous people, America

Abstract

In this original contribution published in 1988, Brazilian Black intellectual Lélia Gonzalez develops the concept of Amefricanity (amefricanidade) as a politically and culturally relevant category to address the material, historical, and symbolic realities of Afro-descendant and Indigenous peoples in the Americas.