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    2. Family Systems and Cultural Change

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Berquo,Elza (Author) and Xenos,Peter (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    1992
    Published:
    New York: Oxford University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    222 p

    13. O brasil e o colonialismo europeu

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Prado, J. F. Almeida de (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    1956
    Published:
    São Paulo: Companhia Editora Nacional
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    484 p

    21. O negro no Maranhão

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Santos Neto,Manoel dos (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    São Luís, MA, Brasil: Clara Editora
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    138 p, Discusses the history of blacks in Maranhao and slavery

    40. A saga da abolição mossoroense

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Rolim,Ivana Ester Rosado (Author)
    Format:
    Monograph
    Publication Date:
    2002
    Published:
    Mossoro: Fundação Vingt-un Rosado
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    99 p

    41. Transatlantic Ties: Recent Works on the Slave Trade, Slavery, and Abolition

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Kraay,Hendrik (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    Austin, TX: The University of Texas at Austin
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Latin American Research Review
    Journal Title Details:
    39(2) : 178-195
    Notes:
    Reviews several books on slavery. The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The "Liberation" of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital, by David Baronov; The Virgin, The King and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780, by María Elena Díaz; The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas, by David Eltis.;

    42. Gilberto Freyre

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Lehmann,David (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    Latin American Research Review
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Latin American Research Review
    Journal Title Details:
    43(1) : 208-218
    Notes:
    Focuses on the book "Casa-grande e senzala," by Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre. In his book, Freyre introduces the idea of Brazilian racial democracy (democracia racial) and analyzes the views of black people in Brazil. Freyre and his ideas were said to be controversial and racist and many believed that these ideas created myths within society

    43. Shaping the New World : African slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Nellis,Eric Guest (Author) and Canadian Historical Association (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2013
    Published:
    Projected Pub Date: 1307
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    About the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World. While the book explores the idea of the African slave as a tool in the formation of new American societies, it also acknowledges the culture, humanity, and importance of the slave as a person and highlights the role of women in slave societies.

    45. The Sisterhood of Nossa Senhora Da Boa Morte and the brotherhood of Nossa Senhora do Rosario: African -Brazilian cultural adaptations to antebellum restrictions

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Smith,E. Valerie (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Spring 2002
    Published:
    United States: Vanderbilt University, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Afro-Hispanic Review
    Journal Title Details:
    21(1/2) : 121-133
    Notes:
    Discusses the challenges faced by people of African descent during the slave era, who were forced to adapt to their surroudings while, at the same time, attempting to maintain their own cultural integrity. Focuses on the African Diasporic peoples of Brazil, and describes in detail the sisterhood of Nossa Senhora da Boa Morte and the brotherhood of Nossa Senhora do Rosario. Notes that these confraternities show the ingenuity of the Afro-Brazilian people as they maintained their cultural heritage.;

    46. Um defeito de cor

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Gonçalves,Ana Maria (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Language:
    Portuguese
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    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.

    48. Women and religion in the African diaspora: knowledge, power, and performance

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Griffith,R. Marie (Editor)
    Format:
    Book, Edited
    Publication Date:
    2006
    Published:
    Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    374 p., This volume's transnational mixture, along with its use of creative analytical approaches, challenges existing paradigms and summons new models for studying women, religions, and diasporic shiftings across time and space. Includes "É a senzala: slavery, women, and embodied knowledge in Afro-Brazilian Candomblé" by Rachel Elizabeth Harding, "'I smoothed the way; I opened doors': women in the Yoruba-Orisha tradition of Trinidad' by Tracey E. Hucks, and "Joining the African diaspora: migration and diasporic religious culture among the Garifuna in Honduras and New York" by Paul Christopher Johnson.

    49. Egressos do cativeiro: trabalho, família, aliança e mobilidade social (Porto Feliz, São Paulo, c. 1798-c.1850)

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Guedes,Roberto (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Language:
    Portuguese
    Publication Date:
    2008
    Published:
    Rio de Janeiro, RJ: FAPERJ : Mauad X
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    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.