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2. Azucar negra: (Re)envisioning race, representation, and resistance in the afrofeminista imaginary
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Guyton Acosta,Kiley Jeanelle (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- New Mexico: The University of New Mexico
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 321 p., Locates contemporary articulations of afrofeminismo in manifold modes of cultural production including literature, music, visual displays of the body, and digital media. Examines the development of afrofeminismo in relation to colonial sexual violence in sugar-based economies to explain how colonial dynamics inflect ideologies of blanqueamiento/embranquecimento (racial whitening) and pseudo-scientific racial determinism. In this context, the author addresses representations of the mujer negra (black woman) and the mulata (mulatto woman) in Caribbean and Brazilian cultural discourse.
3. Black Models Slam Racism in Brazil Fashion with Topless Protest
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-12-04
- Published:
- Chicago, IL
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Chicago Citizen
- Journal Title Details:
- 37 : 8
- Notes:
- "What strikes you, your racism or me?" one of the female demonstrators wrote on her chest during the protest timed to coincide with Rio Fashion Week. "If we are buying clothes, why can't we parade in the (fashion) shows," asked a 15-year-old model taking part in the protest. "Does that mean that only white women can sell and the rest of us can only buy?" "Claiming to showcase Brazilian fashion without the real Brazilians amounts to showing Brazilian fashion (only) with white models," said Jose Flores, a 25-yearold former model who now works in advertising.
4. Shaping the New World : African slavery in the Americas, 1500-1888
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Nellis,Eric Guest (Author) and Canadian Historical Association (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Projected Pub Date: 1307
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- About the origins, growth, and consolidation of African slavery in the Americas and race-based slavery's impact on the economic, social, and cultural development of the New World. While the book explores the idea of the African slave as a tool in the formation of new American societies, it also acknowledges the culture, humanity, and importance of the slave as a person and highlights the role of women in slave societies.
5. Shedding Light On Brazilian Crack Epidemic
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Alford,Harry C. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jan 10-Jan 16, 2013
- Published:
- Sacramento, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sacramento Observer
- Journal Title Details:
- 5 : F4
- Notes:
- Crack addiction is out of control in Brazil. Alford laments the lack of political power for blacks in Brazil. “This nation tries to hide its Blackness ... Blacks are 52 percent of the population but, in a nation where voting is mandatory, Blacks have less than 10 percent of the elected officials. They have no economic base.” He suggests that drug dealing – which disproportionately victimizes black Brazilians – flourishes due to official corruption and complicity by the police and legal communities.
6. The Color of Hunger: Food Insecurity and Racial Inequality in Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Wood,Charles H. (Author) and Felker-Kantor,Erica (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- May 2013
- Published:
- Philadelphia, PA: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 8(3) : 304-322
- Notes:
- Brazil's 2009 National Household Survey provides information on a representative sample of 121,708 households and includes items that enable us to identify households that experience 'moderate' and 'severe' degrees of food insecurity. The findings support the hypothesis that, other things being equal, Afro-Brazilians experience higher rates of food insecurity compared to whites. The odds of moderate and severe food insecurity are, respectively, 31 percent and 45 percent higher among brown compared to white households. Among black households, the odds of moderate and severe food insecurity are 50 percent and 73 percent higher, respectively, compared to households headed by a person who declares themselves white.
7. The formation of Candomblé : Vodun history and ritual in Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Parés,Luis Nicolau (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2013
- Published:
- Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Originally published in Portuguese in Campinas by Editora da Unicamp as A formação do Candomblé: História e ritual da nação jeje na Bahia, 2006., 398 p., Interweaving three centuries of transatlantic religious and social history with historical and present-day ethnography, Luis Nicolau Pares traces the formation of Candomble, one of the most influential African-derived religious forms in the African diaspora, with practitioners today centered in Brazil but also living in Europe and elsewhere in the Americas.