September 9, 2021

Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative, Center for Race and Gender at UC Berkeley presents: 

Release of the monograph, BREAKING WORLDS: Religion, Law, Citizenship in Majoritarian India; The Story of Assam with a keynote from Dr. Navi Pilllay (UN High Commissioner for Human Rights 2008-2014 and Judge Ad Hoc International Court of Justice (The Gambia v. Myanmar), with panel chair Michael Kugelman (Woodrow Wilson Center), and monograph author and contributors Dr. Angana P. Chatterji (UC Berkeley Political Conflict, Gender and People’s Rights Initiative), Mihir Desai (Legal Scholar & Human Rights Counsel), Dr. Harsh Mander (Human Rights Advocate & Author), and Abdul Kalam Azad (Scholar).

Co-sponsored by the Institute for South Asia Studies, and the Department of Gender and Women’s Studies at UC Berkeley.

BREAKING WORLDS: Religion, Law, Citizenship in Majoritarian India; The Story of Assam

On this episode James talks with Erica Lorraine Williams, Assistant Professor at Spelman College and author of 'Sex Tourism in Bahia: Ambiguous Entanglements.' They discuss Erica’s book, which explores how Brazil’s sex tourism industry affects Afro-Brazilian women’s lives in the Brazilian state of Bahia. They also look more broadly at how Afro-Brazilian women have been impacted by the election of president Jair Balsanaro, and the ways they have organized to resist this current regime.

You can learn more about Erica's book here: [https://www.press.uillinois.edu/books/catalog/67nsg8gz9780252037931.html]

How Black Feminists Activists Are Resisting Brazil’s Conservative Turn

The Center for Race and Gender (CRG) is an interdisciplinary research center at the University of California, Berkeley that fosters explorations of race, gender, and their intersections.

BREAKING WORLDS: Religion, Law, Citizenship in Majoritarian India; The Story of Assam

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