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Also published as: Oliveira, Eliana de. Mulher negra, professora universitária: trajetória, conflitos e identidade. Brasília: Liber Livro Editora, 2006
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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p. 146 p.
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O foco da pesquisa se dirige para uma rede de agrupamentos negros rurais e urbanos e para trajetórias individuais que indicam deslocamentos coletivos. A partir de trabalho de campo realizado em Conceição dos Caetanos foram levantadas várias comunidades negras rurais situadas entre o litoral e o sertão no Estado do Ceará: Água Preta, Goiabeiras e Lagoa do Ramo. Foram identificados alguns núcleos de migrantes que são originários dessas áreas e residem em Fortaleza. Há também notificação de movimentos migratórios para a região amazônica. Essa rede de parentesco abrange igualmente outras localidades que constituíram agrupamentos negros e marcaram as rotas dos velhos e dos antepassados dos núcleos citados. Essa movimentação aparece combinada com a permanência no agrupamento rural ou urbano. Portanto, este estudo põe em questão o papel da mobilidade territorial na formação da identidade. Para a reflexão do quadro atual, tem-se em vista a emergência das comunidades negras rurais em processo de reconhecimento como "remanescentes de quilombo."
164 p., Explores four contemporary novels and a film that rely heavily on photographic and mass-media images to illuminate, articulate, and critique modern-day Black urban existence: Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco (1997), Chris Abani's Graceland (2004), John Edgar Wideman's Fanon , Paulo Lins' Cidade de Deus (1997), and Fernando Meirelles' 2002 film adaptation of Lins' novel City of God . Chapters examine the ways in which photographic and/or mass-media images are used as narrative tropes or devices for representing the material conditions of an emerging slum existence. The author argues that each text reveals a preoccupation with the rise of global urbanism and visual culture as new types of discursive spaces--new kinds of "texts"-- that shape not only the real life of black people, but also the literary landscape of Black writing across the globe.
Chicago: University of Chicago, Dept. of Political Science
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239 p., "Despite the popular adage that blacks do not vote for blacks, using original survey data, I find that Afro-Brazilians in Salvador and São Paulo who identify as black (preto or negro ) vote for black politicians more than Afro-Brazilians who claim lighter colors. This is a significant finding because it means that Afro-Brazilians do not choose identities idly. Rather, identifying as black is a form of black consciousness." --The Author
233 p., Analyzes three contemporary novels by Black women authors to argue that their daughter-protagonists gain a sense of their own subjectivities as women of African descent through their imaginative and creative responses to their respective muted paternal histories and legacies. These responses motivate the creation of ritualistic art forms rooted in communal practices such as storytelling, sculpting, music, dance-drama, folk medicine, and traditional cuisine. Maps the centrality of family, community, rituals, and art to the development of female subjectivity as represented in Marilene Felinto's As mulheres de Tijucopapo / The Women of Tijucopapo , Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker , and Gayl Jones's Corregidora.
211 p., Explores the similarities and differences which characterize the depiction of people of color in certain representative 19th century Cuban and Brazilian slavery novels as a function of the authorial approach of each territory's literary tradition toward the issues of slavery, racial prejudice, and people of color. The selected texts, derived from the peak periods in slavery literature of each territory, include Francisco , by Anselmo Snárez y Romero; Sab , by Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda; Cecilia Valdés , by Cirilo Villaverde; A escrava Isaura , by Bernardo Guimarães; O mulato , by Aluísio Azevedo; and Bom-Crioulo , by Adolfo Caminha. While the present study explores the enslavement, abuse, and discrimination of people of color as a consequence of a deep-seated discourse of power, privilege and racial superiority, it focuses more extensively on the representation of people of color, particularly in their capacity to constructively appropriate the cultural values of the white dominant group and recognize their identity as ambiguous.
