Beatriz Nascimento
Maria Beatriz do Nascimento (12 July 1942 – 28 January 1995), known as
Beatriz Nascimento, was an
Afro-Brazilian academic and activist. She was an influential participant of the
Black Movement of Brazil from its beginnings in the 1960s until her death. Through her academic research, she evaluated the importance of ''
quilombos'' as autonomous spaces for people of African descent during the
colonial period and challenged the political environment and racial policies of the government toward Afro-Brazilians. Her scholarship on the invisibility of black women, and particularly non-Anglo women of the
African diaspora had an international impact on research regarding the complexities of the black experience and lack of attention focused on
Afro-Latinas in
transnational feminism.
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