Housing provision and land rights in the quilombola community Ribeirão da Mutuca (Brazil)
Elizabeth Othon de Souza
Faculdade de Arquitetura e Urbanismo da Universidade de São Paulo FAUUSP
The quilombola communities represent
more than 400 years of social struggle
of former slaves and their descendants
The Brazilian Federal Constitution of
1988 defines in its article 68 the right to
the lands occupied by these
communities The legislation defines
them as ethnic racial groups
according to self attribution criteria
with their own historical trajectory
endowed with specific territorial
relations with presumption of black
ancestry related to resistance to the
historical oppression suffered
Event: Annual World Bank Conference on Land and Poverty 2019
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