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240 p., When the South American colony now known as Guyana was due to gain independence from Britain in the 1960s, U.S. officials in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations feared it would become a communist nation under the leadership of Cheddi Jagan, a Marxist who was very popular among the South Asian (mostly Indian) majority. Although to this day the CIA refuses to confirm or deny involvement, Rabe presents evidence that CIA funding, through a program run by the AFL-CIO, helped foment the labor unrest, race riots, and general chaos that led to Jagan's replacement in 1964.
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951 p., Story of an elderly African, blind and dying, traveling from Africa to Brazil in search of the lost son for decades. Along the journey, she will tell her life, marked by killings, rape, violence and slavery. Set in an important historical context in the formation of the Brazilian people and narrated in a way in which the historical facts are immersed in daily life and in the lives of the characters.
França,Edson (Editor), Ruy,José Carlos (Editor), and Vieira,Manoel Julião (Editor)
Format:
Book, Edited
Language:
Portuguese
Publication Date:
2007
Published:
São Paulo: Editora e Livraria Anita Garibaldi
Location:
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Notes:
158 p., Contents: Prefácio/ Manoel Julião Vieira-- Uma história de luta contra o racismo UNEGRO-- Poemas/ Solano Trindades-- Olhar panorámico sobre o movimento negro brasileiro/ Edson França-- O marxismo e a questão colonial e racial/ Augusto Buonicore-- Há racismo no Brasil Algumas características do preconceito racial brasileiro José Carlos Ruy-- Raças, genes e história Verõnica Bercht --População e miscigenação no Brasil; Clóvis Moura-- Mulher negra: os avanços são ingáveis / Estela Maris Cardoso-- Ambivalências raciais/ Dennis de Oliveira-- A luta contro o racismo é parte integrante do projeto de emancipação nacional e social: documetos da Luta Anti-Racista.
For [Heidi Rondon], the opportunity to express her African roots through music and dance was a calling. "In our veins we carry the African feeling," she explained. "We are direct descendants of slaves that cultivated cocoa and coffee in the central coast of Barlovento many years ago." "These Africans were Latin America's first liberators," says historian and activist Jorge Guerrero Valez accompanying the group. A dignified Venezuelan enormously conscious of his African heritage and history, Jorge spoke eloquently about the solidarity Afro-Venezuelans, as they call themselves, feel with their African American brothers and sisters in the United States and the need to enhance the relationship.
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210 p., Contents: Carlos Arturo Truque: Colombia a corazón abierto / Sonia Nadezhda Truque -- La vocación y el medio: historia de un escritor / Carlos Arturo Truque -- Vivan los compañeros -- Granizada -- La noche de San Silvestre -- Sangre en el llano -- El día que terminó el verano -- Sonatina para dos tambores -- La fuga -- La diana -- El encuentro -- Fucú -- El misterio -- Martín encuentra dos razones -- Dos hombres -- Porque así era la gente -- La aventura de tío conejo -- La muerte tuvo cara y sello -- José dolores arregla un asunto -- Lo triste de vivir así -- El collar -- Las gafas oscuras -- De cómo Jim empezó a olvidar -- Puntales para mi casa -- La otra oportunidad -- El pigüita -- Longinos.
Bogotá, Colombiana: Universidad Nacional de Colombia-Sede Bogotá, Facultad de Derecho, Ciencias Políticas y Sociales, Departamento de Ciencia Política, Instituto Unidad de Investigaciones Jurídico-Sociales Gerardo Molina
Location:
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Study aims to identify the major factors underlying the discrepancy in poverty levels between whites and blacks in Brazil. Results show that the characteristics effect explains a large part of the discrepancy in poverty levels: education and labor variables explain one-half of the gap, and geographic and sociodemographic variables another two-fifths.
