Beatriz Nascimento

Beatriz Nascimento, an intellectual figure in 20th-century Brazilian history, made notable and important contributions to the understanding of Brazilian history, culture, politics, and the Black experience in the Americas. Her ideas encompassed a wide range of topics, including analyses of gender and sexuality, historical and sociological and anthropological reflections on the lived realities of quilombos (maroon communities, communities of escaped slaves and their descendants) in Brazil, both past and present.

"The earth is my quilombo. My space is my quilombo. Where I am, I am. When I am somewhere, I am someone."