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The Unified Black Movement in Brazil, 1978-2002
Brazil in the late 1970s was a country of racial tension and inequality. During this time, a number of independent Black organizations sprang up from older roots, giving the black population a place to create, develop and share narratives about life in Brazil. Within these organizations, they developed a sense of racial consciousness that gave rise to the Movimento Negro Unificado (MNU) in 1979. The MNU, or Unified Black Movement, created an outlet for racial grievances and gave a voice to those previously unheard. This intensive historical study of Brazil's Movimento Negro Unificado centers on the political effects and ramifications of the group. In order to present a complete picture of th...
Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective
Contradictory forces are at play at the close of the twentieth century. There is a growing closeness of peoples fueled by old and new technologies of modern aviation, digital-based communications, new patterns of trade and commerce, and growing affluence of significant portions of the world's population. Television permits individuals around the world to learn about the cultures and lifestyles of peoples of physically distant lands. These developments give real meaning to the notion of a global village. Peoples of the world are growing closer in new and increasingly important ways. Nonetheless, there are disturbing signs of a growing awareness of ethnic differences in all parts of the world ...
Racism and Discourse in Spain and Latin America
LC Number: 2005048399
Anthropologies of Education
Despite international congresses and international journals, anthropologies of education differ significantly around the world. Linguistic barriers constrain the flow of ideas, which results in a vast amount of research on educational anthropology that is not published in English or is difficult for international readers to find. This volume responds to the call to attend to educational research outside the United States and to break out of “metropolitan provincialism.” A guide to the anthropologies and ethnographies of learning and schooling published in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Slavic languages, Japanese, and English as a second language, show how scholars in Latin America, Japan, and elsewhere adapt European, American, and other approaches to create new traditions. As the contributors show, educators draw on different foundational research and different theoretical discussions. Thus, this global survey raises new questions and casts a new light on what has become a too-familiar discipline in the United States.
A Refuge in Thunder
"[An important] detailing of the development and evolution of a major institution of the African Diaspora [and] of Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian identity." —Sheila S. Walker The Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé has long been recognized as an extraordinary resource of African tradition, values, and identity among its adherents in Bahia, Brazil. Outlawed and persecuted in the late colonial and imperial period, Candomblé nevertheless developed as one of the major religious expressions of the Afro-Atlantic diaspora. Drawing principally on primary sources, such as police archives, Rachel E. Harding describes the development of the religion as an "alternative" space in which subjugated and enslaved blacks could gain a sense of individual and collective identity in opposition to the subaltern status imposed upon them by the dominant society.
Literary Passion, Ideological Commitment
This study examines Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian women writers, as well as analysing the roles of women of African descent in Cuban and Brazilian literature. Initially, literary imagination locked women into circumscribed roles, a result of hierarchies embedded in slavery and colonialism, and sustained by hierarchical theories on race and gender.The discussion illustrates how these negative aspects have influenced the mainstream literary imagination that contrasts with the 'self-portrayals' created by women writers themselves. Even as there continues to be disadvantageous constructions, there is no doubt that a modification has occurred over time in images, representation, and articulation. It is a change directly associated with the instances when women themselves are the writers.The historiographic image of the Afro-Cuban and Afro-Brazilian woman as a written object is ideologically replaced by a vision of her as a writing subject. It is here that the vision of a creative, multifaceted, and diversified literature becomes important.
Relocating the Sacred
Although Brazil is home to the largest African diaspora, the religions of its African descendants have often been syncretized and submerged, first under the force of colonialism and enslavement and later under the spurious banner of a harmonious national Brazilian character. Relocating the Sacred argues that these religions nevertheless have been preserved and manifested in a strategic corpus of shifting masks and masquerades of Afro-Brazilian identity. Following the re-Africanization process and black consciousness movement of the 1970s to 1990s, Afro-Brazilians have questioned racial democracy, seeing how its claim to harmony actually dispossesses them of political power. By embracing African deities as a source of creative inspiration and resistance, Afro-Brazilians have appropriated syncretism as a means of not only popularizing African culture but also decolonizing themselves from the past shame of slavery. This book maps the role of African heritage in—and relocation of the sacred to—three sites of Brazilian cultural production: ritual altars, literature, and carnival culture.
Mama Africa
An examination of the meanings of blackness in the Brazilian state of Bahia, which is often called the most African part of Brazil.
Lendas Indígenas
NESSE LIVRO IRAY GALRÃO REUNI UM CONJUNTO DE HISTORIAS CONTAS NAS ALDEIAS DOS POVOS DA FLORESTA, DO NORTE DO BRASIL. SÃO LENDAS MÁGICAS QUE ALIMENTA NOSSOS SONHOS E HORIZONTES COM OS MISTÉRIOS QUE CERCAM NOSSOS ANCESTRAIS, OS PRIMEIROS QUE AQUI VIVIAM BEM ANTES DA CHEGADA DOS PORTUGUESES. LENDAS INDÍGENAS É UMA HISTÓRIA PARA CRIANÇAS, JOVENS E ADULTOS, QUE DEVEM SER LIDAS E CONTAS EM RODAS ILUMINADAS POR ESTRELAS.
Lendas Africanas
A ESCRITORA IRAY GALRÃO É PENHA DE CONHECIMENTO DA CULTURA IORUBÁ. EM LENDAS INDÍGENAS ELA NOS PRESENTEI COM UMA SERIE DE HISTÓRIAS FANTÁSTICAS SOBRE OS DIVERSOS MITOS QUE COMPÕE A HISTORIA DESSA NAÇÃO AFRICANA E QUE TANTO CONTRIBUIU PARA A FORMAÇÃO DO POVO BRASILEIRO. LENDAS AFRICANAS É UM LIVRO DESTINADO A CRIANÇAS MAIS QUE PODE SER LIDO POR ADULTOS, QUE CERTAMENTE FICARAM FASCINADOS COM A FLUIDEZ DAS LENDAS CONTAS POR IRAY, QUE POR SUA VEZ FORAM TRANSMITIDAS A ELAS PELOS SEUS AMIGOS DA NAÇÃO IORUBÁ.
