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A Terra Indígena do Rio Guaporé, localizada no sudoeste amazônico no estado de Rondônia, constitui um espaço multiétnico e linguístico onde vivem dez povos indígenas. Dentro deste contexto regional, parto da perspectiva dos Kujubim, grupo pertencente à família linguística Txapakura, para pensar e revelar algumas relações existentes entre humanos, animais, espíritos-donos e aldeias subaquáticas. De antemão, é possível afirmar que tais relações não podem ser pensadas fora do contexto onde elas são concebidas, isto é, dos espaços onde elas são constituídas, como a aldeia, o rio, a floresta e os sonhos. Mediante diversas negociações destes espaços e das perspectivas dos seres - humanos e não humanos - que os habitam, os lugares, os seres e as coisas acabam sendo classificados de acordo com estatutos diferentes, a depender dos tipos de relações práticas que são estabelecidas por cada um entre eles. É nesse sentido e contexto, portanto, que procedo das seguintes questões: como podem os queixadas serem, ao mesmo tempo, bichos para os humanos e "plantação" para seus donos? Como podem peixes, que são bichos para humanos, serem produtos da roça para o povo de uma aldeia subaquática? Assim o é igualmente para as corujinhas-da-noite que são bichos, mas donas e comadres da anta.

In giving President Obama a record level of support (75 percent) and reaching a watershed 10 percent of the voting population, Latinos proved to be decisive in the 2012 election outcome-an unprecedented mark of influence for this segment of the wider electorate. This shift also signaled a radical reenvisioning of mobilization strategies by both parties and created a sea change in the way political organizations conduct outreach and engagement efforts. In this groundbreaking volume, experts in Latino politics ask: What is the scope of Latino voter influence, where does this electorate have the

Objective. Currently, Latinos and African Americans constitute more than one‐quarter of the U.S. population. The sheer size of these groups suggests an opportunity for increased political influence, with this opportunity providing the incentive for greater social and political interaction between them. The objective of this article is to determine the role of Latino group consciousness in the formation of attitudes toward African Americans.Methods. Utilizing data from the 1999 Washington Post/Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation National Survey on Latinos, a multivariate ordered logit model is employed to test the relationship between Latino group consciousness and perceptions of commonality with African Americans.Results. Results show that group consciousness in the form of Latino internal commonality and perceived discrimination are contributors to Latino perceptions of commonality with African Americans.Conclusion. This analysis demonstrates that before any meaningful political alliances can be formed between the nation's two largest minority groups, Latinos may need to develop strong levels of panethnic identity.

The public opinion of the Latino community is an understudied area within the political science literature. This analysis contributes to this literature by investigating the role of group consciousness across both Latino salient and general policy areas utilizing the 1999 Washington Post/Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation National Survey of Latinos. By including both issue areas that are salient to the Latino community (immigration, bilingual education) as well as those that are not directly tied to Latinos (abortion, death penalty), I test the primary hypothesis that group consciousness has a greater impact on Latino political attitudes across issues that are directly tied to ethnicity than on those that are not. Results from this analysis support the overall theory, as perceived discrimination motivates public opinion toward both immigration and bilingual education, and collective action toward immigration. Among other factors, nativity and the length of time lived in the U.S. have the greatest influence on Latino public opinion.

There are approximately 40 million Latinos living in the United States, which represents 13.7% of the U.S. population. Despite the growing attention the newly titled largest minority group has yielded, there is still a large question of whether this community can translate demographics into political influence. This study attempts to add to this literature by testing dominant theories of political participation in conjunction with the concept of group consciousness utilizing the 1999 Kaiser/Post National Survey of Latinos. Through the use of measures for all dimensions of group consciousness across multiple Latino subgroups, this analysis helps to clarify the role of group consciousness in Latino political behavior. Through an examination of the relationship between group consciousness and political participation across both voting and Latino-specific activities, this study suggests that group consciousness is more meaningful in the context of political activities that are directly tied to the Latino community.