Paper/Proposal Title
Phenotype, Scientific Racism and Colonialism: the reintroduction of colonial categories of race in tribunal proceedings within Brazil
Location
M2225
Start Date
November 2023
End Date
November 2023
Keywords
Affirmative action, reparations, procedural justice, substantive equality, race commission, heteroidentificação
Abstract
The abstract uploaded considers the implementation model of affirmative action in Brazil. This abstract has been used to develop a working paper, however arguments raised in this paper have additionally been delivered by way of a presentation. This working paper considers how adequate the current model of affirmative action in Brazil is in order to create substantive equality for Afro-Brazilians. The paper starts by considering the watershed allegations raised against Brazil in the 2001 UN Durban Conference, in which the claims of Brazil being a "racial democracy" were roundly debunked. Following the UN Conference, Brazil for the past two decades has attempted to develop a sufficient reparations model by way of affirmative action in order to ensure that its Afro Brazilian populous had adequate education, housing and job opportunities. Nevertheless, as this working paper argues, this current model of affirmative action may pose rights violations for Afro-Brazilians with intersectional identities. Thus, this paper argues for a broad intersectional framework for affirmative action in Brazil. This research can be engaged with by way of a workshop or roundtable segment.
Author/Speaker Biographical Statement(s)
Ann-Marie Debrah PhD Candidate at the University of Oxford Ann-Marie's work uses socio-legal interrogations of the law, specifically affirmative action measures in Brazil. Ann-Marie's current project uses the frameworks of intersectionality, critical race scholarship and decolonial theory. Her broader focuses consider the legacy of pseudoscience in its creation of racial taxonomies and how nations can develop a sufficient reparations methodology to overcome the harms incurred by the desire for capital through the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. Previously, Ann-Marie read History at King’s College London, after undertaking the law conversion course at City University funded by Inner Temple. Ann-Marie gained her M.Sc. in Law and Society from Leiden University.
Phenotype, Scientific Racism and Colonialism: the reintroduction of colonial categories of race in tribunal proceedings within Brazil
M2225
The abstract uploaded considers the implementation model of affirmative action in Brazil. This abstract has been used to develop a working paper, however arguments raised in this paper have additionally been delivered by way of a presentation. This working paper considers how adequate the current model of affirmative action in Brazil is in order to create substantive equality for Afro-Brazilians. The paper starts by considering the watershed allegations raised against Brazil in the 2001 UN Durban Conference, in which the claims of Brazil being a "racial democracy" were roundly debunked. Following the UN Conference, Brazil for the past two decades has attempted to develop a sufficient reparations model by way of affirmative action in order to ensure that its Afro Brazilian populous had adequate education, housing and job opportunities. Nevertheless, as this working paper argues, this current model of affirmative action may pose rights violations for Afro-Brazilians with intersectional identities. Thus, this paper argues for a broad intersectional framework for affirmative action in Brazil. This research can be engaged with by way of a workshop or roundtable segment.
