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2. Black townsmen: urban slavery and freedom in eighteenth-century Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dantas,Mariana L. R. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 280 p., Compares the experiences of persons of African origin and descent in the towns of Baltimore and Sabara, Black Townsmen reconsiders their relationship to eighteenth-century urban environments in the Americas. Following Africans and their descendants through their struggle with slavery, manumission, and life in freedom, Dantas explains how these men and women's efforts and choices helped to define the trajectory of these two towns.
3. CBCF forms strategic alliance with organization from Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2002-12-18
- Published:
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New Pittsburgh Courier
- Journal Title Details:
- 102 : B2
- Notes:
- Executive president of Integrare, Maria Hyeronides Barros DeLima, was also present, and represented Brazil as a signatory on the document. She said, "This partnership will allow Brazilian business entrepreneurs to shake hands with Americans who are way ahead and have so much to teach. Brazilians will also have a chance to enter the walls of the corporate world in Brazil and to do business globally. This is a victory for CBCF, Integrare, the Black community and natives and disabled entrepreneurs. It is definitely a global victory!"
4. Essence welcomes vice-governor from Rio as travel club plans its first trip to Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1999-07-03
- Published:
- Highland Park, MI
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Michigan Citizen
- Journal Title Details:
- 31 : B2
- Notes:
- Essence co-founder Edward Lewis welcomes Benedita da Silva, vice-governor of the state of Rio de Janeiro, to Essence Communications, Inc., headquarters. Da Silva, one of the most-powerful politicians in Brazil, was in New York recently to meet with African-American business leaders to discuss economic and political partnerships between Black Americans and Afro-Brazilians.
5. Facing up to race
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2001-10-18
- Published:
- Boston, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Bay State Banner
- Journal Title Details:
- 3 : 4
- Notes:
- The United States is a paragon of equal opportunity when compared with Brazil. Even though Brazilians in power have always asserted that the nation is a racial democracy, whites possess all the high status and wealth while blacks struggle for survival at the bottom. Brazilians insist that blacks do not suffer because of their color but because of their poverty. However, the socio-economic data is so racially skewed that the government has recognized the necessity for massive intervention.
6. Never meant to survive: genocide and utopias in black diaspora communities
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vargas,João Helion Costa (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Pub. Group, Inc
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 262 p., By examining two cities linked by common experiences of Blackness, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro, this book identifies a prevailing genocidal force that organizes individuals and groups across society. The 1965 and 1992 riots in Los Angeles, the work of the Black Panther Party and favela activists in Brazil, and police brutality in struggles between black communities and the state in both L.A. and Rio de Janeiro all figure importantly in Costa Vargas's compelling account.
7. Never meant to survive: genocide and utopias in black diaspora communities
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vargas,João Helion Costa (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 231 p., Contents: Introduction -- Genocide in the African diaspora : Brazil, United States, and the imperatives of holistic analysis and political method -- The inner city and the favela : transnational black politics -- Hypersegregation and revolt : the Los Angeles black ghetto in historical perspective -- The Los Angeles Times' coverage of the 1992 rebellion : still burning matters of race and justice -- Hyperconsciousness of race and its negation : the dialectic of white supremacy in Brazil -- When a favela dared to become a condominium : challenging Brazilian apartheid -- Black radical becoming : the revolution imperative of genocide.
8. Pictures and mirrors: race and ethnicity in Brazil and the United States
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Vieira,Vinícius Guilherme Rodrigues (Editor) and Johnson,Jacquelyn (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Sao Paulo: FEAUSP
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 406 p., Includes Luciana da Cruz Brito's "South Atlantic "freedom" : the American media's view of Brazil's abolition of slavery process," Flávio Thales Ribeiro Francisco's "Black Aurora : Afro-Paulistas and Afro-Americans in modernity," Jacquelyn Johnson's "Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic : an incomplete paradigm," Túlio Custódio's "Roads and paths : the intellectual trajectory of Abdias do Nascimento during his exile in the United States (1968-1981)," Sarah Birdwell's "Double discrimination in a racial democracy : struggles of Black feminists in Brazil," Jackeline Romio's "The murder of black women in the city of São Paulo in 1998," Sarah Birdwell's "Negation and misrepresentation : "Black TV" in the United States and Brazil," etc.
9. Promoting Afro-Brazilian trade
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2003-05-21
- Published:
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New Pittsburgh Courier
- Journal Title Details:
- 42 : B1
- Notes:
- [Weldon J. Rougeau] met with Henrique Ulbrig, president of DuPont do Brazil and chair of the board on Integrare. Ulbrig embraced the idea of a summit to be held in August and indicated that the other board members would embrace the idea as well. Ulbrig talked about the value of the inclusion movement from the view of corporate Brazil. He indicated that the business case argument for inclusion had taken hold in Brazil, as it has here in the U.S. Specifically, Clarence Smith, co-founder of Essence magazine has developed a project to establish an airline between Miami, Fla. and Salvador, Bahia, in the northeast of Brazil. Bahia is the center of African culture in Brazil and a frequent tourist destination for African Americans. Currently, no direct flights occur between the U.S. and this region of Brazil. Smith's theory is that a direct route to the area will exponentially increase the number of African Americans traveling to the area.
10. Re-configuring paternal legacies through ritualistic art: Daughters and fathers in contemporary fiction by women of African descent
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pierre-Louis,Barbara Gina (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- Minnesota: University of Minnesota
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 233 p., Analyzes three contemporary novels by Black women authors to argue that their daughter-protagonists gain a sense of their own subjectivities as women of African descent through their imaginative and creative responses to their respective muted paternal histories and legacies. These responses motivate the creation of ritualistic art forms rooted in communal practices such as storytelling, sculpting, music, dance-drama, folk medicine, and traditional cuisine. Maps the centrality of family, community, rituals, and art to the development of female subjectivity as represented in Marilene Felinto's As mulheres de Tijucopapo / The Women of Tijucopapo , Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker , and Gayl Jones's Corregidora.