African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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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.
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.
Machado,Ana Rita Araújo (Author), Santos,Denílson Lessa dos (Author), Sales,Kathia Marise B. (Author), Fonseca, Raimundo Nonato da S. (Author), and Mattos,Wilson Roberto de (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Portuguese
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Salvador: EDUNEB
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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152 p., The AFROUNEB is an Affirmative Action Program. A collection of articles and essays reflecting the dynamics of race relations in Brazil.
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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316 p., She was an 18th century black Suriname woman with millions of dollars. But she sought the forbidden: to marry a white man. Why, when she already had so much? Elisabeth Samson's immense wealth puzzled many early historians who concluded that it could only have been the result of an inheritance from a master with whom she had lived and by whom she had been set free.
Chicago: University of Chicago, Dept. of Anthropology
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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272 p., Analyzes the relations between macropolitical changes and the lives of people in Alcantara. Chapters detail: (1) the changing social, economic, and ecological lives of Alcantara's villagers; (2) the contested effects of recent multicultural governance in Brazil--specifically remanescentes das comunidades dos quilombos (escaped-slave descended communities); (3) how state-sanctioned experts in Alcantara help shape people's understanding of the region's deep social inequality; and (4) the circulation of rumors of US plans to undermine Brazil's space program and invade the Amazon forest.
Montano,Oscar D. (Author) and Diarra,Fidèle (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Language:
Spanish
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Montevideo: Mastergraf
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1 vol., "En este primer volumen de Historia Afrouruguaya se abordan aspectos de las culturas africanas antes de la trata de esclavizados y sus costumbres. Se indica cuáles fueron los pueblos de África que estuvieron forzadamente aquí, su ubicación geográfica y los países que se beneficiaron con el tráfico humano. Ya en el Prólogo, realizado por Fidèle Diarra, Embajador de la República de Malí en Cuba, se comienzan a aportar aspectos en muchos puntos novedosos acerca de la presencia africana anterior a Colón en lo que sería luego llamado América. Oscar Montaño analiza censos y estadísticas para establecer la cantidad de población afro que habitaba Montevideo a comienzos del siglo XIX, las actividades que debieron realizar, la violencia que sufrieron y la forma en que lograron sobrevivir. El origen del Candombe y los primeros cantos de protesta de los africanos en estas tierras se abordan en el Capítulo final." --Back cover.
