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75 p.
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle, Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle.
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle
Rastafari: the background of the movement, the emergence and development movement, lifestyle
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Originally published: Rio de Janeiro : EdUERJ, 1996., 4 vols., Contains: Vol. 1. A matriz africana no mundo -- Vol. 2. Cultura em movimento : matrizes africanas e ativismo negro no Brasil -- Vol. 3. Guerreiras de natureza : mulher negra, religiosidade e ambiente -- Vol. 4. Afrocentricidade : uma abordagem epistemológica inovadora.
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168 p., Explains why Protestant missionaries stationed in Brazil during the nineteenth century remained silent on the issue of abolition, even after the end of the American Civil War. Barbosa asserts that the missionaries' first priority was to secure a toehold for Protestantism and that meant not alienating the political and landowning elites of Brazilian society.
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319 p., An examination of Nicaragua's African roots. Reveals current manifestations in religion, dance, musical instruments, spells and incantations, meals, and African words.
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Winner of the 1978 National Book Critic's Circle Award for fiction., 305 p., The lives of 5 people, black and white, servant and millionaire, are entertwined. The setting is a Caribbean island. A visitor, young Jadine, neice of the butler and his wife and protegee of the Streets, educated at the Sorbonne, comes home for a visit from Paris. Son, black American street man breaks into the house and all lives are changed. Jadine and Son come together and strive to hold and understand each other as backgrounds and cultural circumstances come into play.
