International Day of Afro-descendants
Since 2021, August 31st has been celebrated as International Day of People of African Descent, in homage to the contributions of the African diaspora around the world and to raise awareness about the need to eliminate all forms of discrimination.
This proclamation focuses on protecting the rights of people of African descent, as well as recognizing their contributions and preserving their cultural heritage.
CLACSO has been addressing and disseminating this topic since its founding. Currently, it has several productions and two Working Groups about Afro-descendants:
Afro-descendants and counter-hegemonic proposals
Founded in 2016, the Working Group (GT) was a pioneer in the production, training, and dissemination of knowledge in the field of Afro-descendant studies. It is coordinated by Rosa Campoalegre Septien of the Center for Psychological and Sociological Research in Cuba. The GT comprises researchers, Afro-descendant activists, and public policy officials, with a strong focus on the voices of Black intellectuals and leaders from the Americas and Africa, including Argentina, Brazil, Cameroon, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, the United States, Haiti, Mexico, and the Dominican Republic.
-Civilizational crisis, reconfigurations of racism, Afro-Latin American social movements
The Working Group is based on four axes: Afroepistemology, Afro-Latin social movements, Black feminisms and intersectionality, Racial states and ethnic-racial policies, coordinated by Diógenes Rafael Díaz Campos of the Doctorate of Social Sciences mention Cultural Studies of the Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Carabobo, Venezuela, and Agustín Lao-Montes of the Center of Interdisciplinary Legal and Social Studies of the Faculty of Law and Social Sciences, ICESI University, Colombia.
-Advanced Diploma in Afro-descendant Peoples and Historical Reparation
Academic coordination: Rosa Campoalegre Septien (CIPS, Cuba) and Anny Ocoró Loango (FLACSO – CONICET, Argentina). Start date: September 10, 2025 | Registration deadline: September 9, 2025.
Publications
-Our Afro-America: Crisis, Afro-descendants, movements
Bulletins of the CLACSO Working Group “Civilizational crisis, reconfigurations of racism, Afro-Latin American social movements”.
-Contributions to the declaration of rights of Afro-descendant peoples
-Beyond the Decade for People of African Descent
More about Afro-descendants
-InfoCLACSO #240 (August 27, 2025) – The struggle of indigenous peoples for land and identity
-Dialogues on politicsracial equity policies
-Afro-descendant Women's Dayscintiful
-Federico Pita: In Latin America, the racial question must be at the center
-Academia and activism drive anti-racism program in Cuba
-Racism and anti-racism today: disputes, recognitions and reparations – Masterful dialogue at #CLACSO2025
Rosa Campoalegre Septien (Austral University of Chile and University of La Frontera – University of Mar del Plata), Ana Margarita González Vásquez (Manager of Ethnic Racial Justice – Vice Presidency of the Republic), Claudia Miranda (Carioca Network of Black Ethno-educators. Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro) and Federico Fernando Pita (Workers' Innovation Center)
-Blackness, Afro-Latinities, racisms and resistances: Keynote address at #CLACSO2022. Presented by Jenny Torres. Speakers: Mara Viveros Vigoya | Rita Segato | Rosa Campoalegre Septien.
-2nd Colloquium on WomenAfro-descendants
-We must resume the agenda with social justice for all populations – Claudia Miranda
Colombian Maroon Guard – International Forum “Social Dialogue for Equality and Human Rights”
-Founding Declaration of the International Network of Afrofeminist Voices (RIVAS)
-International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
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