Afro-Costa Rican women and delayed multiculturalism: constitutional reform of the (white) republic of Costa Rica by Marianela MUÑOZ MUÑOZ

“…On the other, it recognizes the challenges and strategies of Afro-Costa Rican women to reframe this reform in terms of social justice.…”
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Black Motherhood Politics in Costa Rica: Diasporic Genealogies and Links to the State by Marianela Muñoz-Muñoz

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Education as a Human Right: A Comparison of Two Early College Approaches to University Access for Racial/Ethnic Minority Students in Costa Rica and the United States by Leah McAlister-Shields, Rebecca M. Bustamante

“…In comparing early college systems, several questions for further inquiry emerged particularly around the demographic reporting and power mobility of Afro Costa Ricans.…”
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Dialogues of Eulalia: Forging a Black Woman Intellectual in Central America by Marianela Muñoz Muñoz

“…As a contribution, this article examines the foundations of Eulalia Bernard’s Black political thought in her poetry vinyl Negritud (1976), and the book Nuevo ensayo sobre la existencia y la libertad política (1981). The Afro-Costa Rican writer and activist dialogues intellectually, sensorially and emotionally with various diaspora historical figures, music and literature for the creation and display of her first cultural products. …”
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Medicinal plants cultivated in urban home gardens in Heredia, Costa Rica by Roxana González-Ball, Tania Bermúdez-Rojas, Marilyn Romero-Vargas, Melissa Ceuterick

“…Although the country has a high endemic diversity of plants, many exotic medicinal plant species were introduced by the Spaniards during the colonization and by Afro-Costa Rican descendants. The present results thus show how the diversity of the medicinal plants used by these garden owners' confirms a socioeconomic gradient and reflects both Costa Rica’s colonial history as well as the current epidemiological profile of the country. …”
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