Land, Cultural Dispossession, and Resistance: Afrodescendent and Indigenous Peoples in the Americas

This volume provides readers with accounts of the contemporary consequences of the Eurocentric Western model of racialized power and extractivist development: cultural, linguistic, and land dispossession, displacement and forced migration, climate and water injustice, and the environmental destruction of Afro-descendent and indigenous communities in the Americas.

The past and present circumstances of Afro-descendent and Indigenous peoples in the Americas have been shaped by the “coloniality ...