Black Transnational Political Engagements
Posted: 3 Nov 2013
Date Written: November 2, 2013
Abstract
This paper explores the contribution of transnational studies to our understanding of political collective action. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the Afro-descendant Garifuna community of Honduras, I discuss transnational political linkages that connect the community in Honduras with other Garifuna communities in Central America and in the United States. Transnational advocacy networks are particularly important for this community that has faced a history of discrimination and marginalization within the Honduran state. As such, this paper discusses the importance of transnational processes of political engagement in marginalized communities in the Americas.
Keywords: transnational networks, Afro-descendant groups, Central America, collective action
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