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369 p., Provides a history of Brazilian racial inequality from the abolition of slavery in 1888 up to the late 1980s, showing how economic, social and political changes in Brazil during the last 100 years have shaped race relations. By examining government policies, data on employment, mainstream and Afro-Brazilian newspapers, and a variety of other sources, Andrews traces pervasive discrimination against Afro-Brazilians over time. He draws his evidence from the country's most economically important state, Sao Paolo, showing how race relations were affected by its transformation from a plantation-based economy to South America's most urban, industrialized society.
In an effort to push the literature on music and collective identity to examine how the cognitive dimension of collective identity gets constructed, a study shifts away from the customary focus on lyrics, toward an analysis of the everyday discursive contexts of music scenes, such as rehearsals, informal commentary, and training seminars. By examining such contexts within the black gospel music scene in São Paulo, Brazil, the study discovers that a complex ideology of racial identity, infused with ideas drawn from North American history and the Bible, circulates within the scene.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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.
[Alcorn] began collecting books for the school in October with a goal of accumulating 1,000 books. Faculty, staff, alumni, students and surrounding communities have contributed all kind of resources, exceeding Alcorn's goal of 1,000 books. ''I'm impressed and thankful that the Alcorn family has been so generous," [M. Christopher Brown II] said. "We are not a rich university, but Alcorn demonstrates our commitment to continuously invest in the knowledge and economic prosperity in our nation and beyond our borders, one of Alcorn's founding missions." To donate hooks or money to Alcorn's Zumbi dos Palmares University book drive, Call the Alcorn State University Foundation at 601.877.6296.
African American comic book artist David G. Brown and Brazilian cartoonist Mauricio Pestana will exhibit their works and participate in panel discussions along with the original 19 African artists from all over Africa to offer Brazilian residents an original and creative view of Africa's diversity and richness of comic culture.
