- Collection:
- Atlanta University and Clark Atlanta University Theses and Dissertations
- Title:
- Race, class and national identity in black Ecuador: Afro-Ecuadorians and the struggle for human rights, 1997
- Creator:
- Dixon, David
- Date of Original:
- 1970/1979
- Subject:
- Degrees, Academic
Dissertations, Academic - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Fulton County, Atlanta, 33.749, -84.38798
- Medium:
- theses
dissertations - Type:
- Text
- Format:
- application/pdf
- Description:
- This study analyzed the social predicament of Ecuadors black population. The main objectives of the dissertation were to explain the low social status of Afro-Ecuadorians from a political economy perspective; to analyze the concept of race and Minority Rights as an aspect of human rights; and to focus the debate on the Republic of Ecuadors human rights policy regarding its black population. In this methodology, political economy, race analysis and minority rights theory were developed. It was argued that in black Ecuador slavery, concertaje, mestizaje, racial democracy, dependency underdevelopment and white supremacy, as developed in the Ecuadorian context, have severely limited the social mobility of Afro-Ecuadorians. The researcher concluded that developments in the political economy of Ecuador since the abolition of slavery have brought little change for the Afro-Ecuadorian population. This process of socio-economic exclusion is based on a deliberate policy that excludes Afro-Ecuadorians from civil society.
Date of award: 4/1/1997
Degree type: dissertation
Degree name: Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Granting institution: Clark Atlanta University
Department: Political Science
Advisor: Martin, Guy
Advisor: Boone, William H.
Advisor: Vanden, Harry - Metadata URL:
- http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12322/cau.td:1997_dixon_david
- Holding Institution:
- Atlanta University Center Robert W. Woodruff Library
- Rights:
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