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Beyond Racism
This study explores issues of race, racism, and strategies to improve the status of people of African descent in Brazil, South Africa and the USA. The authors provide in-depth information about each country, together with analyses of cross-cutting themes and trends.
Decolonial Aesthetics II
This book features writing by 17 authors from Germany and from African and Latin American countries on highly diverse aesthetic phenomena as seen from their own different points of view. The texts in this volume all deal with the imperative of ‘decolonization’: they try to highlight aesthetic strategies for the (re)discovery of unthematized, misappropriated, transcultural and even transcontinental histories and memories and aesthetic practices that are absent from or too little perceived within national consciousnesses. Novels, poems and musical performances from the East African region are analysed as intertwined histories of the Indian Ocean and its different languages. Artworks of the Black Atlantic and perceptions of Africa are discussed from, for example, Brazilian perspectives. Within the German context, decolonisation strategies in exhibition practices in ethnological or art museums developed by Nigerian artists are evaluated; new terms such as ‘dividuation’ are proposed to describe these contemporary composite-cultural entanglements, and so on. A stimulating, wide-ranging and heterogeneous portrait of contemporary interwoven world cultures!
Language Contact
This volume opens a timely discussion about the various theoretical and methodological models being developed to describe the phenomenon of language contact. It focuses mainly on contact resulting from situations of mobility and borders, particularly in Brazil, which offers an example of complex contacts between peoples and languages. The book focuses on the social effects of language contact, resulting from mobility, linguistic and social practices, and representations and identities in continuous construction. Migration movements, both to and from the country, are the cause of multiple forms of multilingualism, the linguistic, social and cultural effects of which must be analysed. There is still an absence of work concerning the description of these phenomena and their modality. As such, this volume addresses this gap, discussing the relation between language, culture and identity from different perspectives and concepts. This publication assembles eleven articles by researchers concerned with language contact, each developing theories and methodologies over distinct objects and fields, offering a variety of discussions within the thematic scope of the book.
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.
Mestizaje and Globalization
Mestizaje and Globalization contributes to an emerging multidisciplinary effort to explore how identities are imposed, negotiated, and reconstructed. The volume offers a comprehensive and empirically diverse collection of insights that look beyond nationalistic mestizaje projects to a diversity of local concepts, understandings, and resistance, with particular attention to cases in Latin America and the United States.
The Scramble for the Amazon and the Lost Paradise of Euclides da Cunha
A “compelling and elegantly written” history of the fight for the Amazon basin and the work of a brilliant but overlooked Brazilian intellectual (Times Literary Supplement, UK). The fortunes of the late nineteenth century’s imperial powers depended on a single raw material—rubber—with only one source: the Amazon basin. This scenario ignited a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, and Brazil for the forest’s riches. In the midst of this struggle, the Brazilian author and geographer Euclides da Cunha led a survey expedition to the farthest reaches of the river. The Scramble for th...
NEMITYRA: Revista Multilingüe de Lengua, Sociedad y Educación - Vol3-N1
Numero Completo - ISL UNA
O pensamento negro em educação no Brasil
Em meados dos anos 80, autores como o queniano Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o que, passando mui ao largo das falácias eufóricas de um Francis Fukuyama, colocava as questões da África em termos bem precisos. Abdicava de pensar nos conflitos do continente como uma questão de tribos, de um emaranhado e discutia os problemas locais em termos dos efeitos da colonização: "O estudo das realidades africanas tem sido há tempos tomado em termos de tribos. O que quer que aconteça no Quênia, no Malawi é por causa da tribo A contra a tribo B. (...) Minha abordagem será diferente. Eu olharei para as realidades africanas na medida em que elas são afetadas pelo grande confronto entre duas forças antagôn...
O Ensino do Teatro nos Quilombos: Memórias e Identidades Kalunga em Cena
É com imensa alegria que compartilhamos com vocês leitores o livro O Ensino do Teatro nos Quilombos: Memórias e identidades Kalunga em cena. Apresentamos nele algumas diretrizes de pesquisa que teve como objetivo sistematizar uma metodologia de ensino do teatro, visando à apreensão corpórea, à (re)significação de conceitos, ao fortalecimento e à (re)apropriação da cultura local pelos jovens quilombolas da comunidade Kalunga, do município de Cavalcante (GO). Além da pedagogia do teatro, o escopo teórico-metodológico desta pesquisa baseou-se em estudos da História Oral e da Antropologia Visual para o levantamento e a análise de materiais pela e na própria comunidade, como: d...
Direitos Humanos e as Práticas de Racismo
Derivada da tese de doutorado em Sociologia defendida na Universidade de Brasília, em 2009, pelo autor, esta publicação traz uma análise detalhada dos processos e sentenças judiciais de 18 capitais brasileiras resultantes de denúncias de racismo no Brasil, no período de 2005 a 2007.
