Kwame Dixon Explained

Kwame Dixon (born 1960) is a political scientist and human rights activist who specializes on race in the Americas.^{[1] [2]} His field of interest is in African descendant people living in Latin America, North America and South America. He is a professor of Afro-Latino Studies, Race, Democracy and Human Rights for Afro-Latin Americans.^[3] He currently works at Howard University as a professor in the department of African American Studies.^[4] He contributes articles to The Hemispheric Institute E-misférica,^[5] He is also a consultant for NGO's like Consultant – Club of Madrid Expert: African Women's Leadership Project.

Career

He has a B.A, MA, and PhD in Political Science. He currently teaches at Howard University. He has been a visiting professor at Depauw University.^[6] He was a Fulbright Scholar. He has conducted field research on Afro American communities in Ecuador, Colombia, Brazil, Cuba, and Nicaragua. He has been a visiting professor in Spain for three years.

Publications

Books

• Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America (co-authored with John Burdick), University Press of Florida, 2012
• Racism and the Administration of Justice.^[7]
• "Transnational Social Movements and the Struggle for Human Rights: The Case of Afro-Colombians," (book chapter) in Rethinking Social Movements: Resistance, Power and Democracy in Post Neoliberal Era, edited by Harry Vanden and Richard Stahler-Sholk (Rowmann and Littlefield), 2008
• "The Intersection of Race, International Affairs and US Foreign Policy: How African Americans have influenced and constructed US foreign policy" (book chapter) in Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice: Foreign Policy, Race, and the New American Century Clarence Lusane, 2006
• The Politics of Latin America: The Power Game, Harry Vanden and Gary Prevost (book chapter), New York: Oxford University Press, 2002

Journal publications

• "Afro-Cinema in Latin America: a new cultural renaissance," e-misférica – a Journal of Performance and Politics in the Americas, 2008
• "Where is Sara Gomez," SCOPE – A Journal of Critical Film Studies, October 2007
• "Afro-Colombians and the Struggle for Human Rights" Wadabagei, Journal of the Caribbean and its Diaspora, Special Issue on the Black presence in Latin, Volume 8, Number 1, Winter 2005
• "Discriminación Racial y Derechos Humanos: Los derechos de los No-Ciudadanos" (Racial Discrimination and Human Rights: The Rights of Non – Citizens): Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, 2003

TV Appearances

Race and Revolution in Cuba Democracy Now!, 2000 himself

Notes and References

1. http://www.democracynow.org/2000/4/28/race_and_revolution_cuba_and_blackness Race and Revolution: Cuba and Blackness
2. Web site: Kwame Dixon, Professor at Syracuse University . 2012-04-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161011170601/http://kldixon.syr.edu/CV.htm . 2016-10-11 . dead .
3. http://acontracorriente.chass.ncsu.edu/index.php/acontracorriente/article/view/81 Black Latin America on Fire | Dixon | A Contracorriente
4. Web site: SU professors edit landmark book on Afro-Latin American rights . 2012-04-24 . 2016-03-03 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160303214510/http://asnews.syr.edu/newsevents_2012/releases/dixon_burdick_afro_latin_book.html . dead .
5. Web site: e5.2 Film Review - Afro-Cinema in Latin America: A new cultural renaissance . 2012-04-24 . 2012-09-15 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120915055750/http://hemisphericinstitute.org/hemi/en/e-misferica-52/dixon . dead .
6. http://aei.pitt.edu/9575/1/2005.1%20Dixon.pdf
7. http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=DIXON001 University Press of Florida: Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America