International Day of People of African Descent
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 was a pioneer in the production, training, and dissemination of knowledge in the field of Afro-descendant studies, coordinated by Rosa Campoalegre Septien of the Center for Psychological and Sociological Research in Cuba. The Working Group is composed of 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
It 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.
Books
-Contributions to the declaration of rights of Afro-descendant peoples
-Beyond the Decade for People of African Descent
News on the web
-Dialogues on racial equity policies
-In Latin America, the racial issue must be at the center
-Caregiving is a job that, unfortunately, is unpaid.
-Academia and activism drive anti-racism program in Cuba
Events
-Blackness, Afro-Latinities, racisms and resistances: Keynote address at the 9th Latin American and Caribbean Conference of Social Sciences #CLACSO2022. Presented by Jenny Torres. Speakers: Mara Viveros Vigoya | Rita Segato | Rosa Campoalegre Septien.
-Traveling school of Afro-feminist voices
-Keynote address. Afro-descendants, feminisms and counter-hegemonic proposals
-2nd Colloquium on Afro-descendant Women
audiovisual
-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”
statements
-Founding Declaration of the International Network of Afrofeminist Voices (RIVAS)
-International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. Do we celebrate or commemorate?
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