Brasília: Gabinete do Senador Abdias Nascimento : Secretaria Especial de Editoração e Publicações
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
267 p, Contents: Diário de um negro atuante / Ironides Rodrigues -- Aspectos de la experiência afro-brasileira / Abdias Nascimento -- O negro desde dentro / Guerreiro Ramos -- A escultura de José Heitor / Efrain Tomás Bó -- Projeto Estudos Contemporâneos : Mesa Redonda de Rio de Janeiro / Elisa Larkin Nascimento -- As civilizações africanas no mundo antigo / Elisa Larkin Nascimento -- O preconceito nos livros infantis / Guiomar Ferreira de Mattos.
Examines aspects related to the plural constitution of Afro-descendants informed by black discursiveness in Salvador, Bahia. This discursiveness is strongly marked by the role of black music and by the history of Afro-descendant Carnaval. This essay shows that these subjects are a product of modernization and operate in it, while giving it a specific configuration. Social agents as reflexive audience play a decisive role in the review and criticism of such modernity, pluralizing it and pushing the boundaries of democracy and of representation politics, in their demand for recognition and changes. Music, as discursive production and as sociability experience, plays a key part in this process.
Reviews several books on slavery. The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The "Liberation" of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital, by David Baronov; The Virgin, The King and the Royal Slaves of El Cobre: Negotiating Freedom in Colonial Cuba, 1670-1780, by María Elena Díaz; The Rise of African Slavery in the Americas, by David Eltis.;
