Nascimento,Abdias do (Author) and Nascimento,Elisa Larkin (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1992, 1987
Published:
Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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218 p, Contents: Memories from exile : the making of a Brazilian Pan-Africanist (Lisbon, 1976 and Rio de Janeiro, 1991). Appendix: Nascimento's inaugural speech as state secretary -- Pan-Africanism, Negritude and the African experience in Brazil (Miami and Dakar, 1987) -- Africans in South and Central America : members of the African World (Accra, 1988)
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Journal Title Details:
1 videocassette (59 min.)
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Originally broadcast on the television program Booknotes on November 7, 1999. Brian Lamb interviews Eugene Robinson about his book Coal to Cream: A Black Man's Journey Beyond Color to an Affirmation of Race. The book examines race relations in the United States and much of the Western Hemisphere by looking at Mr. Robinson's personal experiences in the U.S. and Brazil, where he noted that racism is rare but inequality still exists.
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7
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313 p, 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. The essays in Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective lucidly explore some of the complexities of the persistence and re-emergence of race and ethnicity as major lines of divisiveness around the world. Contributors analyse manifestations of race-based movements for political empowerment in Europe and Latin America as well as racial intolerance in these same settings. Attention is also given to the conceptual complexities of multidimensional and shared cultural roots of the overlapping phenomena of ethnicity, nationalism, identity, and ideology. The book greatly informs discussions of race and ethnicity in the international context and provides an interesting perspective against which to view America's changing problem of race. Race and Ethnicity in Comparative Perspective is a timely, thought-provoking volume that will be of immense value to ethnic studies specialists, African American studies scholars, political scientists, historians, and sociologists; "A publication of the National Conference of Black Political Scientists"
Rio de Janeiro, RJ: Expressão e Cultura : Ordem dos Advogados do Brasil-RJ
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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135 p., Quilombo / Carlos Otavio de Andrade, Salete Neme -- Senhor, escravo, e direito / João Luiz Duboc Pinaud -- A mulher escrava e o processo de insurreição / Maria Cândida Gomes de Souza, Jeannette Queiroz Garcia -- Transcrição dos autos crimes -- Transcrição insurreição -- Bibliografia (p. [233]-[236]).
Goldschmidt,Henry (Author) and McAlister,Elizabeth A. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2004
Published:
New York: Oxford University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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338 p, Includes Elizabeth McAlister's "The; Jew in the Haitian imagination: a popular history of anti-Judaism and proto-racism"; John Burdick's "Catholic Afro mass and the dance of eurocentrism in Brazil"; and Kate Ramsey's "Legislating 'civilization' in postrevolutionary Haiti"
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951 p., Story of an elderly African, blind and dying, traveling from Africa to Brazil in search of the lost son for decades. Along the journey, she will tell her life, marked by killings, rape, violence and slavery. Set in an important historical context in the formation of the Brazilian people and narrated in a way in which the historical facts are immersed in daily life and in the lives of the characters.
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Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Programa de Pós-Graduaç̜ão em História da UFRJ, 2005., 401 p., History of freed slaves in the region of Porto Feliz (SP), between the end of the 18th and mid-19th century when brown, black freedmen and their descendants had to created conditions for societal integration.
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627 p, 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;
Machado,Ana Rita Araújo (Author), Santos,Denílson Lessa dos (Author), Sales,Kathia Marise B. (Author), Fonseca, Raimundo Nonato da S. (Author), and Mattos,Wilson Roberto de (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Portuguese
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Salvador: EDUNEB
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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152 p., The AFROUNEB is an Affirmative Action Program. A collection of articles and essays reflecting the dynamics of race relations in Brazil.
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292 p., Definitive information on the identity and status of the emancipados who were a special group of Africans in Brazil, Cuba and Latin America. The author establishes that the peculiar nature of the introduction of the emacipados into Brazil and America made them free Africans, both de jure and de facto, thereby setting them apart from freed Africans or slaves in Brazilian and Cuban societies. Emancipados held a much better status within these societies.
Vieira,Vinícius Guilherme Rodrigues (Editor) and Johnson,Jacquelyn (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Publication Date:
2009
Published:
Sao Paulo: FEAUSP
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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406 p., Includes Luciana da Cruz Brito's "South Atlantic "freedom" : the American media's view of Brazil's abolition of slavery process," Flávio Thales Ribeiro Francisco's "Black Aurora : Afro-Paulistas and Afro-Americans in modernity," Jacquelyn Johnson's "Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic : an incomplete paradigm," Túlio Custódio's "Roads and paths : the intellectual trajectory of Abdias do Nascimento during his exile in the United States (1968-1981)," Sarah Birdwell's "Double discrimination in a racial democracy : struggles of Black feminists in Brazil," Jackeline Romio's "The murder of black women in the city of São Paulo in 1998," Sarah Birdwell's "Negation and misrepresentation : "Black TV" in the United States and Brazil," etc.
Kabengele,Munanga (Author) and Gomes,Nilma Lino (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Potuguese
Publication Date:
2006
Published:
São Paulo: Global Editora Ação Educativa
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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224 p, Contents: Homens e mulheres negros: notas de vida e de sucesso. Abdias do Nascimento. Adhemar Ferreira da Silva. Alzira Rufino. André Rebouças. Benedita da Silva. Carolina de Jesus. Cartola. Castro Alves. Chica da Silva. Clementina de Jesus. Domingas Maria do Nascimento. Dom Silvério Gomes Pimenta. Elisa Lucinda. Emanoel Araújo. Fátima de Oliveira. Francisca. Geni Guimarães. Gilberto Gil. Grande Otelo. João Cruz e Sousa. Joel Rufino dos Santos. Jorge dos Anjos. José do Patrocínio. Léa Garcia. Lélia Gonzáles. Lima Barreto. Luís Gama. Luísa Mahim. Machado de Assis. Mãe Stella. Manuel Querino. Mestre Didi. Milton Gonçalves. Milton Santos. Paulo Paim. Pixinguinha. Raquel Trindade. Ruth de Souza. Teodoro Sampaio. Toni Tornado. Zezé Mota
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239 p., Combines historical elements on the formation of Brazil in their ethnic identity and cultural character and shows the reader the contributions of Bantus in this process. Moreover, Nei Lopes sets new parameters on the relationship between Islam and negritude. By way of its involvement with the black cultural resistance in Brazil and Africa, presents the reader with a face of history unknown to most Brazilians.
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xxvi, 264 : ill., map ; 24 cm, Festive rituals, religious associations, and ethnic reaffirmation of Black Andalusians / Isidoro Moreno -- Presence of Blackness and representation of Jewishness in the Afro-Esmeraldian celebrations of the Semana Santa (Eduador).
"On questions of race, Brazil is enigmatic," [David Covin] says. "Brazil sees itself as a racial democracy, with opportunity for everyone. Yet the country portrays itself as white, and the bulk of the population of people of African descent is marginalized -- socially, politically and economically." Blacks are generally considered a majority of the Brazilian population, at least outside Brazil. The United Nations has estimated blacks make up as much as 73 percent of the population, compared to 12 percent in the United States. Brazil's official census, though, shows the black population at about 44 percent, a sign that Brazil's leadership and population place a premium on "whiteness," according to Covin.
Portuguese and Spanish slavers supplied the Americas with "los Negros," the Blacks. Only those young and strong, impervious to European disease and able to withstand months of torturous living packed in the cruel quarters of slave shipholds survived the middle passage. Those who arrived, stunned and malnourished, lost in a foreign land, were easy prey to the slavers. Removed from a world that had nourished them, left to the mercy of those whose own lack of humanity prevented the recognition of theirs, they were utterly dependent and at the mercy of their captors. Vestiges of racism threaten to dismantle further progress in South America, as they do here. The prophecies of Willie Lynch, a slave owner who created a divisive plan to keep Blacks separate by fostering dissent among them, are coming true. Lynch outlined the differences in physical characteristics among the slaves-skin shade, hair texture, height, etc. By playing up these differences, Lynch promised, "The Black slave, after receiving this indoctrination, shall carry on and will become self-refueling and self-generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands." Throughout North and South America, Lynch's plan lives on. Color lines rule, with the predominantly European strains remaining in power, and those of darker skin and crisper hair texture continue to be oppressed. It is a chilling reality that echoes down from the brutal suppression of the native peoples of Chiapas to the continued repression of Mexicans here and in their own country, to the harsh discrimination shown the Blacks of Brazil and America.
Since I have been thinking about Blacks in Brazil for years, I do know that racial identity is important and perceived differently there. For example, people who consider themselves Black or African American in the U.S. would not automatically be considered Black or African Brazilian in Brazil. People who have brown or lighter skin complexions in Brazil are mulattos, morenos, or some other non Black color category. Approximately half of Brazil's 150 million people are classified as mulatto or Black. "Pe na cozinha" means "foot in the kitchen" and "mulatinho" means "little mulatto." "Foot in the kitchen" refers to someone normally seen as white acknowledging his African ancestry because the kitchen is the kitchen of slavery in which Blacks served whites in all aspects of life.
I do know that racial identity is important and perceived differently there. For example, people who consider themselves black or African American in the U.S. would not automatically be considered black or African Brazilian in Brazil. People who have brown or lighter skin complexions in Brazil are mulattos, morenos, or some other nonblack color category. Approximately half of Brazil's 150 million people are classified as mulatto or black. "Pe na cozinha" means "Foot in the kitchen" and "mulatinho" means "little mulatto." "Foot in the kitchen" refers to someone normally seen as white acknowledging his African ancestry because the kitchen is the kitchen of slavery in which blacks served white in all aspects of life.
Dos Santos and Joaquim Barbosa Gomes, a constitutional law professor and lecturer at Columbia University, say racism is more easily detected in the United States than Brazil and is thus harder to combat. Affirmative action's advocates chide dos Santos Silva and other cautious Afro Brazilians, noting that blacks have been "feeling different" since an estimated 3.6 million slaves toiled throughout the country from 1532 to 1850. That estimate does not include the captured Africans who did not survive the brutal journey to Brazil by ship.
Studies of racial subordination in Brazil usually stress the puzzling co-existence of racial inequality with Brazil's self image as a racial democracy. Frequently, they identify the absence of racial conflict and a clear white black distinction as explanations for the low level of black political mobilization. In doing this, these studies unreflectedly take the United Sates as a universal model of racial subordination of which Brazilian difference is a mere variation.
