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2. Diáspora negra no Brasil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Heywood,Linda M. (Author) and Faustino,Oswaldo (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- São Paulo: Editora Contexto
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Portuguese translation of Linda Heywood, Central Africans and cultural transformations in the American diaspora selections (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2002)., 222 p., Studies the importance of Central African culture to the cultures of the Americas since the Atlantic slave trade. Focusing on the Kongo/Angola culture zone, the book illustrates how African peoples re-shaped their cultural institutions as they interacted with Portuguese slave traders up to 1800, then follows Central Africans through all the regions where they were taken as slaves and recaptives.
3. Slavery in Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Klein,Herbert S. (Author) and Luna,Francisco Vidal (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- New York: Cambridge University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 364 p., Although Brazilians have incorporated many of the North American debates about slavery, they have also developed a new set of questions about slave holding: the nature of marriage, family, religion, and culture among the slaves and free colored; the process of manumission; and the rise of the free colored class during slavery. It is the aim of this book to introduce the reader to this latest research, both to elucidate the Brazilian experience and to provide a basis for comparisons with all other American slave systems.
4. Uma história da cultura afro-brasileira
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Fraga Filho,Walter (Author) and Albuquerque,Wlamyra Ribeiro de (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- São Paulo: Moderna
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 120 p.