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2. Brazil's untapped power in numbers
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2011-05-26
- Published:
- Boston, MA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- The Boston Banner
- Journal Title Details:
- 42 : 4
- Notes:
- There are 38.9 million blacks in the United States. According to the 2000 census there are 75.9 million citizens of Brazil who would be classified as African American in the U.S. Since there are only 91.3 million Brazilian whites, who dominate the country, one wonders why so many blacks are living in poverty in favelas (slums).
3. Demographic Change in a Post-Export Boom Society: The Population of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1776-1821
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bergad,Laird W. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 1996
- Published:
- Fairfax, VA: George Mason University Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Journal of Social History
- Journal Title Details:
- 29(4) : 895-38
- Notes:
- Analyzes the socioeconomic history of the slave system of Minas Gerais in Brazil from 1776 to 1821. Transition from slave-based economy to agricultural and cattle economy; Economic dependence on slave labor; Slave importation; Contributing factors to decline of slave practices.
4. Emancipados: slave societies in Brazil and Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sofela,Babatunde (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Trenton, NJ: Africa World Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 292 p., Definitive information on the identity and status of the emancipados who were a special group of Africans in Brazil, Cuba and Latin America. The author establishes that the peculiar nature of the introduction of the emacipados into Brazil and America made them free Africans, both de jure and de facto, thereby setting them apart from freed Africans or slaves in Brazilian and Cuban societies. Emancipados held a much better status within these societies.
5. Lesson from Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Butty,David C. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 10-Apr 16, 2011
- Published:
- Highland Park, MI
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Michigan Citizen
- Journal Title Details:
- 22 : A11-A11,A14
- Notes:
- History shows close to two million enslaved Africans were taken to South America. A great number of them were taken to Bahia, Brazil, to work on the sugar cane plantations. [Dionisio] has hope for the future of Brazilian Blacks. "If America can elect a Black president, I know that our time will one day come when a Black Brazilian will look after the wellbeing of his or her people. But at the way things are in Brazil, it is only through education that we will one day be equal to the whites, if you know what I mean." At this point, it sounded as if Dionisio was engaged in a monologue. "But many children dream of one day being like Pele, our greatest football star," he continued as he gazed in the distance, his eyes resting on the humming bird doing battle with the sweet nectar. The mention of Pele changed the contour of his face and I could see the veins in his face clearly showing. "Most of our people have let us down. Most, like Pele, can be considered Black, but we have a saying here that 'You are a Black person with a white soul. We say that of Black leaders and football celebrities who do not support any Black agenda."
6. Nego Gato brings dance of Diaspora
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Aldrich,Renee P. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Apr 5-Apr 11, 2006
- Published:
- Pittsburgh, PA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New Pittsburgh Courier
- Journal Title Details:
- 14 : B6
- Notes:
- Nego Gato's current production, under the series "Brazil to Pittsburgh, Vol. 2, is Navio Negregiro: The Ships of Enslavement" is a new work created by organization founder [Mestre Nego Gato] along with Paco Gomes. This work is a combination of Modern and Traditional dances that tells the story of the Middle Passage from African and the subsequent struggles in Brazil to regain their freedom. This production runs April 6 and 7 at 8 p.m. at the Kelly-Strayhorn Theater and the goal again according to Mestre Gato is to "share the beauty, variety and dynamic power of Afro-Brazilian culture."
7. Representation of people of color in the nineteenth century slavery novel in Cuba and Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Moore,Kendal (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- Florida: Florida International University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- 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.
8. 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.
9. Slavery and protestant missions in imperial Brazil: the black does not enter the church, he peeks in from outside
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Barbosa,José Carlos (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- Lanham, MD: University Press of America
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 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.
10. 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.