Schwarcz,Lilia Moritz (Author) and Gomes,Nilma Lino (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2000
Published:
Belo Horizonte: Autêntica
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
191 p, Contents:
Presentation - Introduction: History and Anthropology: clashes in the border region / Lilia K. Moritz Schwarcz - Jacques Le Golf: a new border between anthropology and history / Ailton Jose Agostini - The use of hermeneutic anthropology by Robert Darnton / Alessandra El Far - Anthropology and history in the consumer market / Ciméa Barbato Bevilaqua - the anthropological concept of structure and its openness to the historical event / Claude G. Papavero - the temporality "Kalunga" in the historic space of quilombo / Cleyde R. Amorim - Romero: myth and history in Brazilian social thought / Maria Jose Campos - Gilberto Freyre and the new story: a possible approach / Nilma Lino Gomes - Being "pasante" in São Paulo: ritual practice among Bolivian immigrants / Sidney Antonio da Silva.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
387 p, This text tells of the struggle of the Indo-Caribbean people. From 1838 to 1917 over half a million indentured labourers were shipped from India to the Caribbean and settled in the former British, Dutch, French and Spanish colonies. Like their predecessors, the African slaves, they laboured on the sugar estates. In 1998 in the English-speaking Caribbean alone there are an estimated one million people of Indian descent and they form the majority in Guyana, Trinidad and Tobago. Based on official reports and papers, and unpublished material from British, Indian and Caribbean sources, this text aims to fill a gap in the history of the Caribbean, of India, Britain and other European colonial powers. (I.B. Tauris website);
In April 1999, Dionne Brand, Leslie Sanders, and Rinaldo Walcott sat down to have a conversation about Brand's second novel At The Full and Change of the Moon. The
interview took place over a promised riposte, and was a conversation among friends.
The novel concerns itself with the contemporary lives of the descendents of Marie Ursule a slave who commits a rebellious and horrific act of mass poisoning on a plantation but saves her daughter Bolla.
Beneficiaries thus far include: West Yorkshire's Cosmos, assigned L30,000 to stage a year-long exhibition for local ethnic communities; Liverpool's Nigerian Community Development Project, given L90,000 to refurbish its Grade II listed building; Wales's Gateway historic parks and gardens access project, granted L113,000; Brixton's National Museum and Archive of Black History, handed L302,000; and central London's Coram's Fields play area for children, awarded £1m for a complete restoration. [Helen Jackson] says there are many ways in which HLF can benefit the black community and that it is particularly keen to address issues such as social exclusion, depravation and young people's concerns. "We want to ensure lottery funding goes to all groups," she says. "We are aware we have more to do in really promoting equality of access to our funding.
