Beatriz Nascimento, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Beatriz Nascimento

Afro-Brazilian academic

Date of Birth: 12-Jul-1942

Place of Birth: Aracaju, Sergipe, Brazil

Date of Death: 28-Jan-1995

Profession: teacher, civil rights advocate

Nationality: Brazil

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Beatriz Nascimento

  • Beatriz Nascimento (12 July 1942 – 28 January 1995) 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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