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2. Egressos do cativeiro: trabalho, família, aliança e mobilidade social (Porto Feliz, São Paulo, c. 1798-c.1850)
- 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.
3. Emancipados: slave societies in Brazil and Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sofela,Babatunde (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 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.
4. Neither Black Nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Degler,Carl (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1971
- Published:
- New York: Macmillian Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 302 p, Carl Degler's 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology. Until Degler's groundbreaking work, scholars were puzzled by the differing courses of slavery and race relations in the two countries. Brazil never developed a system of rigid segregation, such as appeared in the United States, and blacks in Brazil were able to gain economically and retain far more of their African culture. Rejecting the theory of Giberto Freyre and Frank Tannenbaum—that Brazilian slavery was more humane—Degler instead points to a combination of demographic, economic, and cultural factors as the real reason for the differences;
5. O negro no Brasil de hoje
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- 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
- Notes:
- 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
6. Um defeito de cor
- 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.
7. Um defeito de cor: [romance]
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Gonçalves,Ana Maria (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2006
- Published:
- Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 951 p., A story of an African elderly who is blind, and on the verge of death, travels to from African to Brazil in a hunt for the lost child for decades.