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2. Cosmopolitan traditions: Caribbean perspectives
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Olwig,Karen Fog (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Social Anthropology/ Anthropologie Sociale
- Journal Title Details:
- 18(4) : 417-424
- Notes:
- Examines three ‘cosmopolitan’ traditions in the Caribbean. While the first tradition derives from the universalist intellectual tradition of the European Enlightenment, the other two are linked to vernacular, local Caribbean traditions.
3. Latin American identities after 1980
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Yovanovich,Gordana (Editor) and Huras,Amy (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 316 p., Takes an interdisciplinary approach to Latin American social and cultural identities. With broad regional coverage, and an emphasis on Canadian perspectives, this book focuses on Latin American contact with other cultures and nations. Includes Jessica Franklin's "Afro-Brazilian women's identities and activism : national and transnational discourse," Adrian Smith's "Legal creolization, 'permanent exceptionalism,' and Caribbean sojourners truths" and Janelle Joseph's "The transculturation of capoeira : Brazilian, Canadian, and Caribbean interpretations of an Afro-Brazilian martial art."
4. Mama Africa: reinventing blackness in Bahia
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pinho,Patricia de Santana (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Durham NC: Duke University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Original edition translated from Portuguese by Elena Langdon., 266 p., An examination of the meanings of blackness in the Brazilian state of Bahia, which is often called the most African part of Brazil.
5. Por los senderos de sus ancestros: textos escogidos, 1940-2000
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Zapata Olivella,Manuel (Author) and Múnera,Alfonso (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Spanish
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Bogotá: Ministerio de Cultura
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 412 p.
6. Raça como questão: história, ciência e identidades no Brasil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Maio,Marcos Chor (Editor) and Santos,Ricardo Ventura (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Rio de Janeiro: Editora FIOCRUZ
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 314 p., Contents: Entre a riqueza natural, a pobreza humana e os imperativos da civilização, inventa-se a investigação do povo brasileiro / Jair de Souza Ramos, Marcos Chor Maio -- Raça, doença e saúde pública no Brasil : um debate sobre o pensamento higienista do século XIX / Marcos Chor Maio -- Mestiçagem, degeneração e a viabilidade de uma nação : debates em antropologia física no Brasil (1870-1930) / Ricardo Ventura Santos -- Crânios, corpos e medidas : a constituição do acervo de instrumentos antropométricos do Setor de Antropologia Biológica do Museu Nacional no fim do século XIX-início do século XX / Guilherme José da Silva, et al. -- "Estoque semita" : a presença dos judeus em Casa-grande & senzala / Marcos Chor Maio -- Cientificismo e antirracismo no pós-2a Guerra Mundial : uma análise das primeiras declarações sobre raça da Unesco / Marcos Chor Maio, Ricardo Ventura Santos -- Antropologia, raça e os dilemas das identidades na era da genômica / Ricardo Ventura Santos, Marcos Chor Maio -- No fio da navalha : raça, genética e identidades / Ricardo Ventura Santos, Maria Cátira Bortolini, Marcos Chor Maio -- A cor dos ossos : narrativas científicas e apropriações culturais sobre "Luzia," um crânio pré-histórico do Brasil / Verlan Valle Gaspar Neto, Ricardo Ventura Santos -- Política de cotas raciais, os "olhos da sociedade" e os usos da antropologia : o caso do vestibular da Universidade de Brasília / Marcos Chor Maio, Ricardo Ventura Santos -- Política social com recorte racial no Brasil : o caso saúde da população negra / Marcos Chor Maio, Simone Monteiro.
7. Slavery in Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Klein,Herbert S. (Author) and Luna,Francisco Vidal (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- New York: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 364 p., Although Brazilians have incorporated many of the North American debates about slavery, they have also developed a new set of questions about slave holding: the nature of marriage, family, religion, and culture among the slaves and free colored; the process of manumission; and the rise of the free colored class during slavery. It is the aim of this book to introduce the reader to this latest research, both to elucidate the Brazilian experience and to provide a basis for comparisons with all other American slave systems.
8. The Africanization of Mexico from the sixteenth century onward: a review of the evidence
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Hernández Cuevas,Marco Polo (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Lewiston, NY: Edwin Mellen Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 189 p., Presents an Afrocentric analysis that acknowledges Mexico's African, Amerindian, Asian, and European ethnic heritages. This work introduces the theory of the widespread Africanization of Mexico from the 16th century onwards. It focuses on the idiosyncrasy of the people who have shaped and continue to carve Mexico and Mexicanness.