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Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Volume 14, 2019 - Issue 3: Justice for Afrodescendants in Latin America: An Interrogation of Ethnoracial Law
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The ‘multicultural invisibility’ of Afro-Venezuelans and their alternative legal politics to fight racial discrimination and acquire ethnoracial recognition: the legal case against Cine Citta

Dayana Rivas BritoIndependent Scholar, Houston, TX, USA;Department of Geography and Environment, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UKCorrespondence[email protected]
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Krisna Ruette-OrihuelaIndependent Scholar, Houston, TX, USA;Department of Geography and Environment, Loughborough University, Leicestershire, UKView further author information
Pages 253-269 | Published online: 17 Oct 2019

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