African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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311 p., Works by Argentine and Uruguayan specialists in the study of the black population and its impact on cultural formation of the Río de la Plata intertwines. The central idea is to strengthen the dialogue and discussion on issues that were silenced by official cultures for many years.
Passo Fundo, RS, Brasil: Universidade de Passo Fundo, UPF Editora
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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271 p., Contents: Antigos quilombos, novos quilombolas / Adelmir Fiabani --
A aplicação da Lei de Terras de 1850 no norte do Rio Grande do Sul / Helen Scorsatto Ortiz --
Filhos de criação : uma forma de produção semi-servil / Agostinho Mario DallaVecchia --
O vaqueiro escravizado na fazenda pastoril piauiense / Solimar Oliveira Lima --
Esclavitud y hacienda pastoril en el Uruguay / Eduardo R. Palermo --
O cativo, o gaúcho e o peão : considerações sobre a fazenda pastoril rio-grandense (1680-1964) / Mário Maestri.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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423 p., Focuses on the migrations and metamorphoses of black bodies, practices, and discourses around the Atlantic, particularly with regard to current issues such as questions of identity, political and human rights, cosmopolitics, and mnemo-history. Includes Judith M. Williams' "Néritude as performance practice: Rio de Janeiro's Black experimental theatre," Richard Follett's "The spirit of Brazil: football and the politics of Afro-Brazilian cultural identity," Dorothea Fischer-Hornung's "Transbodied/transcultured : moving spirits in Katherine Dunham's and Maya Deren's Caribbean," Elvira Pulitano's "Re-mapping Caribbean land(sea)scapes: aquatic metaphors and transatlantic homes in Caryl Phillips's The Atlantic sound," and Antoinette Tidjani Alou's "Marine origins and anti-marine tropism in the French Caribbean: André and Simone Schwarz-Bart."
