Ouputs
This section brings together a set of research projects focused on the construction of a strategic corridor of transnational solidarity during the late Cold War. By examining the intersections between South America, the Caribbean, and Africa, these outputs document how labor recruitment networks, solidarity organizations, and forms of intellectual activism contributed to the making of a Third World cosmopolitanism increasingly attentive to the intersections of race and class.
Article
Julimar Mora Silva, “Varios caminos nos trajeron hasta aquí: cooperantes y colaboradores brasileños en Mozambique socialista (1977-1986)”, Trashumante. Revista Americana de Historia Social, v. 27 (2026), pp. 142-
169, DOI:10.17533/udea.trahs.n27a07
This article explores the participation of Brazilian cooperators and collaborators in
Mozambique during the socialist transition (1977–1986). These internationalists supported
the construction of a new order in Southern Africa. The study highlights their diversity,
motivations, and the challenges they faced during their stay in Mozambique. It also
emphasizes the significance of their experiences, engaging in a dialogue between their
political activism and professional profiles. Knowledge about this community is expanded,
drawing attention to its heterogeneity and highlighting a process that brought together
socialist and labor activists, non-partisan exiles, humanitarians, Pan-Africanists, scientists
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Article
Julimar Mora Silva, “Socialist Globalization in Mozambique: A Cosmopolitan Perspective on Technical-Labour Internationalism in the Late Cold War Era”, International Review of Social History, v. 70, n. 1 (2025), pp.
57 - 91, DOI:10.1017/S0020859025100321
This article examines socialist globalization from the perspective of technical-labor internationalism in Mozambique, focusing on the final stage of the Cold War. First, it analyzes the four main pathways through which international technicians arrived in Mozambique: Latin American exile, socialist intergovernmental cooperation, European postcolonial humanitarianism, and African regionalism. It offers a cosmopolitan perspective on the relations that socialist Mozambique forged with the world. It then provides an inventory of the models of integration of these international technicians into the Mozambican state apparatus, presenting a framework emphasizing organizational rather than ideological aspects [...]
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Article #Forthcoming
Julimar Mora Silva, “Socializar el desarrollo, materializar la solidaridad: cooperación técnica
entre Cuba y Mozambique en la Guerra Fría tardía”, Historia Actual Online, n. 69 (2026) [Dossier: Las relaciones entre África
y Latinoamérica en el marco de la Guerra Fría global] . Publication expected in 2026.
This article examines socialist globalization from the perspective of technical-labor internationalism in Mozambique, focusing on the final stage of the Cold War. First, it analyzes the four main pathways through which international technicians arrived in Mozambique: Latin American exile, socialist intergovernmental cooperation, European postcolonial humanitarianism, and African regionalism. It offers a cosmopolitan perspective on the relations that socialist Mozambique forged with the world. It then provides an inventory of the models of integration of these international technicians into the Mozambican state apparatus, presenting a framework emphasizing organizational rather than ideological aspects. It concludes that, while these paths were singular, they were not mutually exclusive [...]
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Article #Forthcoming
Julimar Mora Silva, "From Third World Chroniclers to Memory Veterans: The Production and Circulation of Internationalist Testimony between Brazil and Mozambique (from the 1970s to the 2020s)", Varia Historia, v. 42 (2026). Publication expected in 2026.
The article analyzes the testimonies of Brazilian internationalists who worked in
Mozambique during the socialist transition process that began in 1977, examining how their
experiences were progressively integrated into transnational memory cultures and contemporary
practices of public history. Drawing on oral sources, travel diaries, and digital archives, the text
investigates how these voices were mobilized, silenced, or re-signified in different historical and
geographical contexts. It argues that such testimonies not only document past experiences but
also contribute to the construction of transnational citizenships and to the critical re-elaboration
of democratic memory in post-dictatorship Brazil. By articulating individual, institutional [...]
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Chapter #Forthcoming
Julimar Mora Silva, “Brothers in suffering, brothers in resistance: Assembling the proletarian unity and black emancipation in Mozambican-Brazilian activist networks, 1980s”. In: F. Piana, D. Weber & S. Zimmermann (Eds.), Nested Internationalisms: Cross-border networks and transnational, entangled labour activisms in global perspective. London, Palgrave Macmillan. Publication expected in 2027.
This chapter analyzes the assemblages between Black Emancipation and Proletarian Unity within Mozambican–Brazilian activist networks during the 1980s. It discusses a fissure between FRELIMO’s “color-blind” Marxism in Mozambique and the racialized revolutionary expectations articulated by Brazil’s Black Unified Movement (MNU). The experience of Brazilian cooperants working for the Mozambican state reveals two distinct patterns: while some did not perceive racial boundaries as salient, others reveal a rupture in which the “whiteness” of white exiles at times clashed with local perceptions that equated whiteness with colonialism and paternalism. Anti-imperialist print culture further shows how Brazilian socialist politicians mobilized the “Black Question” to gain international prestige through processes of bidirectional legitimation between Brazil and Mozambique [...]
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Chapter #Forthcoming
Julimar Mora Silva, “Cosmopolitas do Terceiro Mundo: exílio, mobilidade laboral e solidariedade na experiência brasileira em Moçambique socialista (1977-1986)”. In: Arquivo Nacional de Brasil (Ed.), Prêmio de Pesquisa Memórias Reveladas 2024. Rio de Janeiro: Edições do Arquivo Nacional, pp. 208-241. Publication expected in 2026.
This article explores the participation of Brazilian cooperators and collaborators in Mozambique during the socialist transition (1977–1986). These internationalists supported the construction of a new order in Southern Africa. The study highlights their diversity, motivations, and the challenges they faced during their stay in Mozambique. It also emphasizes the significance of their experiences, engaging in a dialogue between their
political activism and professional profiles. Knowledge about this community is expanded, drawing attention to its heterogeneity and highlighting a process that brought together socialist and labor activists, non-partisan exiles, humanitarians, Pan-Africanists, scientists [...]
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Article
Julimar Mora Silva & Diógenes Díaz, “Congresos de la Cultura Negra de las Américas (CCNA)”. The Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. New York: Oxford University Press, DOI:10.1093/acrefore/9780199366439.013.1252
The Congresos de la Cultura Negra de las Américas (CCNAs), launched in 1977 in Cali, Colombia, and later held in Panama (1980) and Brazil (1982), were landmark gatherings that fostered Black intellectual exchange, cultural affirmation, and political mobilization across the Americas. Conceived and promoted by Colombian writer and anthropologist Manuel Zapata Olivella, the CCNAs brought together artists, activists, and scholars committed to defending the rights of Afro-descendant peoples and recognizing African heritage as foundational to Latin American and Caribbean national identities. Taking place amidst a broader context of authoritarian regimes, anti-colonial struggles, and global opposition to apartheid, the congresses served as vibrant spaces for articulating transnational Black solidarity [...]
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Chapter #Forthcoming
Julimar Mora Silva, “Os Congressos de Cultura Negra das Américas (CCNA): uma história do ativismo negro transnacional (1977-1992)”. In: Fidel Rodriguez Velásquez (Ed.), Américas em fragmentos: Trabalho, Memórias e Lutas Sociais. Rio de Janeiro: Editora PUC-Rio, pp. 237-259. PublicatIon expected in 2026.
The Congresses of Black Culture of the Americas (CCNA), held between 1977 and 1992, represented a dynamic project for the transnational articulation of black intellectual, cultural, and labor networks. These gatherings served as a pivotal laboratory for black internationalism and shared resistance across the Atlantic. A primary focus is the 1982 São Paulo congress, which utilized "quilombismo" to confront Brazil’s military dictatorship and the myth of "racial democracy." By integrating the labor rights of black women and anti-apartheid solidarity, the CCNAs connected cultural identity with material demands. Despite diplomatic and financial obstacles that hindered a fourth meeting, these congresses established a lasting political framework and a collective language of resistance for the Afro-Atlantic world.
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Edited Book
Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez, Julimar Mora Silva & María Elena Meneses Muro (Eds.). Los mundos del trabajo: sociabilidad, resistencias y vida en movimiento. México City: Siglo XXI Editores - Buenos Aires: CLACSO, 2024.
Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez. Julimar Mora Silva. María Elena Meneses Muro. [Editors]
Julia Bacchiega. Sabrina Castronuovo. Judith Andrea Forero Vargas. Paola Gatti. Crislayne Gloss Marão Alfagali. Alessandra Gonzalez de Carvalho Seixlack. Pedro Guimarães Marques. Patricio Herrera González. María Eugenia Marengo. Elienahí Nieves Pimentel. Raúl Plazas Galindo. Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez. Julimar Mora Silva. María Elena Meneses Muro. [Autors]
This book reflects on the specificities and multiplicities of the experiences of work and of workers in Latin America and the Caribbean in a historical key. Its pages are presented as part of a historiographical legacy that in recent decades has allowed us to expand the ways of understanding the worlds of work through the incorporation of new variables, methods and sources.
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Chapter
Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez, Julimar Mora Silva & María Elena Meneses Muro, “Introducción”. In: Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez, Julimar Mora Silva & María Elena Meneses Muro (Eds.). Los mundos del trabajo: sociabilidad, resistencias y vida en movimiento. México City: Siglo XXI Editores - Buenos Aires: CLACSO
(2024), pp. 11-40.
This chapter analyzes the assemblages between Black Emancipation and Proletarian Unity within Mozambican–Brazilian activist networks during the 1980s. It discusses a fissure between FRELIMO’s “color-blind” Marxism in Mozambique and the racialized revolutionary expectations articulated by Brazil’s Black Unified Movement (MNU). The experience of Brazilian cooperants working for the Mozambican state reveals two distinct patterns: while some did not perceive racial boundaries as salient, others reveal a rupture in which the “whiteness” of white exiles at times clashed with local perceptions that equated whiteness with colonialism and paternalism. Anti-imperialist print culture further shows how Brazilian socialist politicians mobilized the “Black Question” to gain international prestige through processes of bidirectional legitimation between Brazil and Mozambique [...]
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Chapter
Julimar Mora Silva, “Un militante africano entre garimpeiros, exguerrilleros y sindicalistas: circulaciones, redes políticas y transnacionalismo en las organizaciones de trabajadores en Brasil (1970-1980)”. In: Fidel Rodríguez Velásquez, Julimar Mora Silva & María Elena Meneses Muro (Eds.). Los mundos del trabajo: sociabilidad, resistencias y vida en movimiento. México City: Siglo XXI Editores - Buenos Aires: CLACSO (2024), pp. 311-346.
This article explores the participation of Brazilian cooperators and collaborators in Mozambique during the socialist transition (1977–1986). These internationalists supported the construction of a new order in Southern Africa. The study highlights their diversity, motivations, and the challenges they faced during their stay in Mozambique. It also emphasizes the significance of their experiences, engaging in a dialogue between their
political activism and professional profiles. Knowledge about this community is expanded, drawing attention to its heterogeneity and highlighting a process that brought together socialist and labor activists, non-partisan exiles, humanitarians, Pan-Africanists, scientists [...]
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