African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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188 p, Esboça a história de diversos gêneros de nossa cultura popular, antigas e novas manifestações, tais como: música caipira e sertaneja, circo, cordel, pastoril, Gilberto Freyre, Brasil-Portugal, uma definição de música popular, gosto musical, tecnologia, e uma profecia
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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204 p, This work describes how slaves, mariners and merchants brought African music from Angola and the ports of East Africa to Latin America, and to Brazil in particular
Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies, University of California
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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160 p, Contents: Race and class in Brazil /; Thomas E. Skidmore --; Race and socioeconomic inequalities in Brazil /; Carlos A. Hasenbalg --; Updating the cost of not being white in Brazil /; Nelson do Valle Silva --; Blacks and the search for power in Brazil /; Pierre-Michel Fontaine --; Brown into Black /; J. Michael Turner --; Blacks and the abertura democrática /; Michael Mitchell --; The unified Black movement /; Lélia Gonzalez --; The African connection and the Afro-Brazilian condition /; Anani Dzidzienyo
Hasse,Geraldo (Author) and Kolling,Guilherme (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2005
Published:
Porto Alegre: JÁ Editores
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African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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142 p, Takes place between 1835 and 1845 about the War of Farrapos. A military group known as Aguerrido was composed of slaves who fought in exchange for their freedom
Nascimento,Abdias do (Author) and Nascimento,Elisa Larkin (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1992, 1987
Published:
Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press
Location:
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218 p, Contents: Memories from exile : the making of a Brazilian Pan-Africanist (Lisbon, 1976 and Rio de Janeiro, 1991). Appendix: Nascimento's inaugural speech as state secretary -- Pan-Africanism, Negritude and the African experience in Brazil (Miami and Dakar, 1987) -- Africans in South and Central America : members of the African World (Accra, 1988)
Izquierdo,Alejandro (Author) and Talvi,Ernesto (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2011
Published:
Washington, DC: Inter-American Development Bank
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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57 p., Conveys three key messages: first, in this new global economic environment, key structural characteristics of Latin American and Caribbean countries are defining two quite different regional clusters in terms of opportunities and challenges ahead. Second, substantial changes in trade and capital flow patterns, as well as in the international financial architecture, are already taking place and will impact the regional clusters in different ways. Third, economic policy design will have to accommodate these differences in order to ensure widespread and stable growth.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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101 p, A narrative history with the catalogue of an exhibition of rare prints, maps, and illustrated books from the John Carter Brown Library. Contents: 1. The birth of the Dutch Republic and the world war against Habsburg Spain -- 2. The West Indies Company -- 3. The Dutch in Brazil : a peerless prince in Pernambuco -- 4. Images and knowledge of the New World -- 5. "In some future day it may be thought of more importance" : Dutch contributions to North American history -- 6. The Guianas and the Caribbean Islands; "Exhibition sites: The John Carter Brown Library, Providence, Rhode Island, May 9 to September 15, 1997; the Equitable Gallery, New York, New York, January 22 to April 4, 1998"--T.p. verso. "Preface" (p. xiii-xv)
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., 335 p., Contains the theoretical basis for understanding African spirituality organized in biblical format, sacred texts, philosophical and historical African tradition. In the first part the author focuses on the traditions and knowledge of the ancient African regions of Congo, Uângara, Takrur and Senegambia, Ethiopia and Zambezia. The second part of the book covers Brazil, the Caribbean, Suriname and the United States.