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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.
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205 p., Content: PME cor ou raça : setembro de 2006 -- Redação originária, exposição de motivos e redação dada pelo relator deputado federal Carlos Abicalil do PL 3.627/04 -- Boletim informativo sobre o 2° vestibular sob o sistema de cotas da UnB --Análise do cenário institucional do sistema de cotas da UnB -- Íntegra do leading case junto ao egrégio tribunal regional federal da 4a. região sobre a implantação do vestibular com cotas raciais e sociais da UFPR -- Avaliação do reitor da UFPR sobre o novo perfil da universidade pós-vestibular com o sistema de cotas -- Recursos administrativos envolvendo a seleção da UFPR pós-cotas -- Batalha jurídica para a implantação do vestibular de cotas da UFPR.
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Based on a conference which took place in Sandton, Johannesburg from 14-15 July 2008., 346 p., This conference is the first of three conferences on the African diaspora with respect to the returnee phenomenon of 'Back to Africa'. Contents: volume 1. Afro-Brazilian returnees and their communities -- volume 2. The ideology and practice of the African returnee phenomenon from the Caribbean and North-America to Africa.
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221 p., Chronicling the period from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the start of Brazil's military regime in 1964, Romo uncovers how the state's nonwhite majority moved from being a source of embarrassment to being a critical component of Bahia's identity.
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213 p., One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomble were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its religious objects were fearsome fetishes. Nowadays, they are Afro-Brazilian cultural works of art, objects of museum display and public monuments
