Doctoral Dissertation Research: Differential Recognition of Two Afrodescendent Populations, 1970-2018

该项目调查为什么只为一些非洲裔人口颁布和实施权利。 在许多地方，自1980年代以来，非洲人后裔运动在政治上引人注目，在文化上引起共鸣，但他们的权利一直未能得到实质性的承认。为了理解为什么只有一些地方将权利扩大到非洲裔人口，而其他地方却没有这样做，这项研究比较了两个地方对非洲裔人口的不同承认。 数据来自两地的访谈、档案记录和12个月的参与者观察。 这项研究的结果将增进人们对增进对不同群体的认识从而促进民族凝聚力和福祉的进程的理解，该项目力求从比较的角度解释为什么只有一些地方将权利扩大到非洲人后裔，而其他地方却没有这样做。两个地方的政治承认或缺乏相反的轨迹的非裔人口进行了调查。 据推测，这种差异是由于民族国家形成的长期项目，民族政治组织的实践和政权更迭的关键节点的差异。 关键时刻的一个关键分析方法是将对动员过程出现的当地环境的分析与对政治主张得到认可的国家舞台的分析分开。该奖项反映了NSF的法定使命，并通过使用基金会的知识价值和更广泛的影响力进行评估而被认为值得支持。审查标准。

This project investigates why rights have been enacted and implemented only for some Afrodescendent populations. In many places, Afrodescendent movements have been politically visible and culturally resonant since the 1980s and yet they have been unable to achieve substantive recognition of their rights. To achieve understanding of why only some places have extended rights to Afrodescendent populations while others have failed to do so, this study compares the differential recognition of Afrodescendent populations in two places. Data come from interviews, archival records in both places, and 12 months of participant observation. Findings from this research will improve understanding of processes that enhance recognition of diverse groups and so contribute to national cohesion and well-being.This project seeks to explain in comparative perspective why only some places have extended rights to Afrodescendent populations while others have failed to do so. Two places with opposite trajectories of political recognition or lack thereof of Afrodescendent populations are investigated. It is hypothesized that the differences are due to differences in long-term projects of nation-state formation, practices of ethno-political organization, and critical junctures of regime change. A key analytical approach to critical junctures is to disentangle the analysis of local settings where mobilization processes emerge from the analysis of national arenas where political claims are recognized.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.