African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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209 p., Explores the limits and prospects of Afro-Caribbean Francophone writers in reshaping or producing action-oriented literature. Part One explores the origins of Afro-Caribbean Francophone literature and what the author terms griotism-- a shared heritage of awareness of biological differences, a sense of the black hero as black messiah and black people as chosen, and the promise of a common racial history.
Olsen,Dale A. (Editor) and Sheehy,Daniel E. (Editor)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2008
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New York: Routledge
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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Articles originally published in: The Garland encyclopedia of world music. Vol. 2, South America, Mexico, Central America, and the Caribbean. 1998., 567 p + 2 sound discs, A collection of articles on the musics of Latin America, covering such regions and cultures as Warao, Q'ero, Argentina, Brazil, Peru, Venezuela, Mexico, Guatemala, Panama, Cuba, Dominican republic and many others.
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322 p., When a small group of free men of color gathered in 1838 to celebrate the end of apprenticeship in Barbados, they spoke of emancipation as the moment of freedom for all colored people, not just the former slaves. The fact that many of these men had owned slaves themselves gives a hollow ring to their lofty pronouncements. Newton demonstrates that simply dismissing these men as hypocrites ignores the complexity of their relationship to slavery. Exploring the role of free blacks in Barbados from 1790 to 1860, Newton argues that the emancipation process transformed social relations between Afro-Barbadians and slaves and ex-slaves.
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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.
Talmon-Chvaicer,Maya (Author) and Sobel,Mechal, (Foreword)
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Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
Austin: University of Texas Austin, TX, USA
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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[Unedited] An in-depth study and cultural history of the development and meaning of capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, which has become popular all over the world. First brought to Brazil by African slaves and first documented in the late 18th c., capoeira has undergone many transformations as it has diffused throughout Brazilian society and beyond, taking on a multiplicity of meanings for those who participate in it and for the societies in which it is practiced. Three major cultures inspired capoeira—the Congolese (the historic area known today as Congo-Angola), the Yoruban, and the Catholic Portuguese cultures. The evolution of capoeira is traced through successive historical eras with a dual perspective, depicting capoeira as it was experienced, observed, and understood by both Europeans and Africans, as well as by their descendants. This dual perspective uncovers many covert aspects of capoeira that have been repressed by the dominant Brazilian culture. This study reclaims the African origins and meanings of capoeira, while also acknowledging the many ways in which Catholic-Christian culture has contributed to it.
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336 p., "The author's West Indian mail boat lay at anchor in a tropical green gulf. At the water's edge, lit by sunset, sprawled the town of Cap Haitien. Among the modern structures were the wrecked mansions of the 16th century French colonials who imported slaves from Africa and made Haiti the richest colony in the western hemisphere. In the ruins was the palace built for Pauline Bonaparte when Napoleon sent his brother-in-law with an imperial army to do battle with slaves who had won their freedom. All this was panoramic as they lay at anchor, but as night fell, it faded to vagueness and disappeared. Only the jungle mountains remained, dark, mysterious; and from their slopes came presently far across the water the steady boom of Voodoo drums." Originally publication: Whitefish, MT: Kessinger, 1929.
Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, Projected Date: 0812
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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364 p., Miller's extensive fieldwork in Cuba and West Africa documents ritual languages and practices that survived the Middle Passage and evolved into a unifying charter for transplanted slaves and their successors. To gain deeper understanding of the material, Miller underwent Ékpè initiation rites in Nigeria after ten years' collaboration with Abakuá initiates in Cuba and the United States. He argues that Cuban music, art, and even politics rely on complexities of these African-inspired codes of conduct and leadership.
Araujo,Emanoel (Author), Santos,Luiz Carlos dos (Author), and Sena,Consuelo Pondé de (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
2008
Published:
São Paulo: Museu Afro Brasil
Location:
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Museum exhibit of Theodoro Sampaio (1855-1937) who was the only federal deputy born as a slave, was an engineer 1877, was a mathematical professor, and a designer for the National Museum.
