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Afro-Brazilians
An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.
The Palgrave Handbook of Theatre and Race
The first comprehensive publication on the subject, this book investigates interactions between racial thinking and the stage in the modern and contemporary world, with 25 essays on case studies that will shed light on areas previously neglected by criticism while providing fresh perspectives on already-investigated contexts. Examining performances from Europe, the Americas, the Middle East, Africa, China, Australia, New Zealand, and the South Pacifi c islands, this collection ultimately frames the history of racial narratives on stage in a global context, resetting understandings of race in public discourse.
Literature and Ethics in Contemporary Brazil
Illuminating the relevance of literature as a catalyst for rethinking Brazil, this book offers a resistance to the official discourses that have worked to conceal social tensions, injustices, and secular inequities in Brazilian society.
Race and Democracy in the Americas
Race and Democracy in the Americas examines dimensions of the comparative dynamics of race and ethnicity, with a directed focus on the Americas, most particularly Brazil and the United States. Brazil and the United States are two countries in the Americas that have been major hosts for the African diaspora. Both countries experienced prolonged enslavement of Africans and both now claim to be beacons of democracy for much of the developing world. Both Afro-Brazilians and African Americans have fielded major liberation movements against racism and oppression yet both groups continue to experience considerable residual racial discrimination and displacement. Brazil and the U.S. remain racialize...
Orfe(x)u e Exunoveau: análise de uma estética de base afrodiaspórica na literatura brasileira
Em Entre Orfe(x)u e Exunouveau: análise de uma estética de base afrodiaspórica na literatura brasileira, Edimilson de Almeida Pereira propõe dois neologismos por meio dos quais busca entender as diversas variantes da poesia e da literatura nacional. Nesta ode ao mito de Exu, orixá que tem a pluralidade como característica fundamental, o professor, poeta e ficcionista apresenta um olhar singular, pautado pela diáspora africana, sobre a construção literária no Brasil e no mundo. Orfe(x)u, para Almeida Pereira, dá conta das manifestações literárias realistas, pautadas por questões mais concretas e calcadas na experiência, sendo representado pelo estilo de escritores como Luiz Ru...
Humanities
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research under way in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Lawrence Boudon became the editor in 2000. The subject categories for Volume 58 are as follows: Electronic Resources for the Humanities Art History (including ethnohistory) Literature (including translations from the Spanish and Portuguese) Philosophy: Latin American Thought Music
Kings for Three Days
With its rich mix of cultures, European influences, colonial tensions, and migration from bordering nations, Ecuador has long drawn the interest of ethnographers, historians, and political scientists. In this book, Jean Muteba Rahier delivers a highly detailed, thought-provoking examination of the racial, sexual, and social complexities of Afro-Ecuadorian culture, as revealed through the annual Festival of the Kings. During the Festival, the people of various villages and towns of Esmeraldas--Ecuador's province most associated with blackness--engage in celebratory and parodic portrayals, often donning masks, cross-dressing, and disguising themselves as blacks, indigenous people, and whites, in an obvious critique of local, provincial, and national white, white-mestizo, and light-mulatto elites. Rahier shows that this festival, as performed in different locations, reveals each time a specific location's perspective on the larger struggles over identity, class, and gender relations in the racial-spacial order of Esmeraldas, and of the Ecuadorian nation in general.
Mulheres, Direito e Protagonismo Cultural
Mulheres como artistas, criadoras, humoristas, museólogas, protagonistas e resistentes, defensoras de direitos e liberdades culturais e das memórias coletivas. Negras, indígenas, campesinas, detentoras de conhecimentos tradicionais, migrantes, lideranças urbanas e outras tantas que atuam, lutam e vivem pela culturiqueza cultural. É sobre isso que este livro fala. Sob a perspectiva de gênero e enfoque na pluralidade, diversidade e interseccionalidade, o protagonismo cultural feminino é o mote principal desta coletânea, coordenada e escrita exclusivamente por mulheres. Dividido em quatro partes, com vinte e cinco capítulos e três entrevistas, o livro invoca a importância da atuação feminina na proteção, difusão e valorização dos direitos e patrimônios culturais, convidando o público leitor a compreender a urgência de firmar um compromisso para enfrentar os inúmeros desafios na efetivação de um dos direitos mais básicos das mulheres: o de ser, viver e fazer cultura.
Deeply Rooted in the Present
Based on ethnographic fieldwork, interviews, and historical research, this book uses a Brazilian quilombola community (descendants of enslaved Africans) as a case study to explore how memories, knowledge, and experience are transformed into cultural heritage.
Oshun's Daughters
Finalist for the 2015 Albert J. Raboteau Prize for the Best Book in Africana Religions presented by the Journal of Africana Religions Oshun's Daughters examines representations of African diasporic religions from novels and poems written by women in the United States, the Spanish Caribbean, and Brazil. In spite of differences in age, language, and nationality, these women writers all turn to variations of traditional Yoruba religion (Santería/Regla de Ocha and Candomblé) as a source of inspiration for creating portraits of womanhood. Within these religious systems, binaries that dominate European thought—man/woman, mind/body, light/dark, good/evil—do not function in the same way, as th...
