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Kwame Dixon

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Kwame Dixon (born c. 1960) is a political scientist and human rights activist who specializes on race in the Americas.[1][2] His field of interest is in African descendant people living in Latin America, North America and South America. He is a professor of Afro-Latino Studies, Race, Democracy and Human Rights for Afro-Latin Americans.[3] He currently works at Howard University as a professor in the department of African American Studies.[4] He contributes articles to The Hemispheric Institute E-misférica,[5] He is also a consultant for NGO's like Consultant – Club of Madrid Expert: African Women's Leadership Project.[2]

Career

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He has a B.A, MA, and PhD in Political Science.[2] He currently teaches at Howard University. He has been a visiting professor at Depauw University.[6] He was a Fulbright Scholar.[2] He has conducted field research on Afro American communities in Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Cuba, and Nicaragua.[6] He has been a visiting professor in Spain for three years.

Publications

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Books

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  • Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America (co-authored with John Burdick), University Press of Florida, 2012
  • Racism and the Administration of Justice.[7]
  • "Transnational Social Movements and the Struggle for Human Rights: The Case of Afro-Colombians," (book chapter) in Rethinking Social Movements: Resistance, Power and Democracy in Post Neoliberal Era, edited by Harry Vanden and Richard Stahler-Sholk (Rowmann and Littlefield), 2008[2]
  • "The Intersection of Race, International Affairs and US Foreign Policy: How African Americans have influenced and constructed US foreign policy" (book chapter) in Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice: Foreign Policy, Race, and the New American Century Clarence Lusane, 2006
  • The Politics of Latin America: The Power Game, Harry Vanden and Gary Prevost (book chapter), New York: Oxford University Press, 2002

Journal publications

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  • "Afro-Cinema in Latin America: a new cultural renaissance," e-misférica – a Journal of Performance and Politics in the Americas, 2008
  • "Where is Sara Gomez," SCOPE – A Journal of Critical Film Studies, October 2007
  • "Afro-Colombians and the Struggle for Human Rights" Wadabagei, Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora, Special Issue on the Black presence in Latin, Volume 8, Number 1, Winter 2005[2]
  • "Discriminación Racial y Derechos Humanos: Los derechos de los No-Ciudadanos" (Racial Discrimination and Human Rights: The Rights of Non – Citizens): Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, 2003[2]

TV appearances

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Race and Revolution in Cuba Democracy Now!, 2000 himself[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b Race and Revolution: Cuba and Blackness
  2. ^ a b c d e f g "Kwame Dixon, Professor at Syracuse University". Archived from the original on 2016-10-11. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
  3. ^ Black Latin America on Fire | Dixon | A Contracorriente
  4. ^ "SU professors edit landmark book on Afro-Latin American rights". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
  5. ^ "e5.2 Film Review - Afro-Cinema in Latin America: A new cultural renaissance". Archived from the original on 2012-09-15. Retrieved 2012-04-24.
  6. ^ a b http://aei.pitt.edu/9575/1/2005.1%20Dixon.pdf [bare URL PDF]
  7. ^ University Press of Florida: Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America
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