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64 p., Life story of Bob Marley, the artist who made reggae music a worldwide phenomenon and became the first Jamaican musician to attain stardom in the pop music world.
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414 p., Never-before-told story of the first black explorer and adventurer in America, Esteban Dorantes. An African slave, Dorantes led an eight-year journey from Florida to California in the early 16th century -— three hundred years before Lewis and Clark ventured west. Includes "Camino Real: The Royal Road to Mexico City, 1536," "Dorantes and the Archive of the Indies," and "Cuba: 1527-1528."
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463 p., Contents: A polícia e os candomblés no tempo de Domingos -- De africano em Onim a escravo na Bahia -- O adivinho Domingos Sodré -- Feitiçaria e escravidão -- Feitiçaria e alforria -- Uns amigos de Domingos -- Domingos Sodré, africano ladino e homem de bens.
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132 p., Renowned as a spiritual healer, reputed to have prophetic powers and feared as an ‘Obeahman’, the name ‘Pa Neezer’ was whispered up and down the length of Trinidad for over three decades with a mixture of fear, reverence and awe. In 1956, a young graduate research student was granted unprecedented access to Ebenezer Elliot, beginning a unique relationship that was to end only with the latter’s death in 1969.
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116 p, Very few references to the participation of black women in Brazilian classical music throughout history. Sergio Bittencourt-Sampaio analyzes the career of two black performers rare success in this area - Joaquina Maria da Conceição Lapa (Lapinha) and Camila Maria da Conceição. These two precursors, distanced by exactly one century were women of remarkable determination and achieved wide recognition through talent, amid a slave and patriarchal society.
Araujo,Emanoel (Author), Santos,Luiz Carlos dos (Author), and Sena,Consuelo Pondé de (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Portuguese
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
São Paulo: Museu Afro Brasil
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Catalog of an exhibition held November 24, 2007-February 24, 2008 at Museu Afro Brasil., 202 p., Contentss: Theodoro Sampaio / Consuelo Pondé de Sena -- O sábio negro entre os brancos : Theodoro Sampaio / Emanoel Araujo -- Theodoro Fernandes Sampaio / Luiz Carlos dos Santos, curador -- O centenário de Theodoro Sampaio / Gilberto Freyre -- Theodoro Sampaio em face do abolicionismo / Romão da Silva -- Vida e obra do sábio Theodoro Sampaio / J. Romão da Silva -- Theodoro Sampaio e o petróleo / R. Magalhães Júnior -- As pesquisas de Theodoro Sampaio / Alberto Silva -- Alguns textos de Theodoro Sampaio -- O índio / Theodoro Sampaio -- Autobiografia / Theodoro Sampaio.; ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 30 cm.; Note(s): Exhibition held November 24, 2007-February 24, 2008.; Other Titles: Theodoro Sampaio, o sabio negro entre os brancos
