Center for Race and Ethnicity at Rutgers University
Fatimah Williams Castro
Research Assistant
Fatimah Williams Castro researches black
activism in Colombia, South America to determine how blackness and
black rights are defined in a self-proclaimed racially democratic
nation. Using event observation, interview, and archival research
from 2007-8, Williams Castro investigated how members of the
Afro-Colombian social movement develop and influence public policies
and legislation that address racism, racial discrimination, and other
disparities experienced along ethno-racial lines. She is
currently in her sixth year of the doctorate program in
Anthropology.
