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2. Afro-Brazilians Finally Fight For Affirmative Action
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- McRae,F. Finley (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 2001-10-24
- Published:
- Los Angeles, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Sentinel
- Journal Title Details:
- 30 : A8
- Notes:
- Dos Santos and Joaquim Barbosa Gomes, a constitutional law professor and lecturer at Columbia University, say racism is more easily detected in the United States than Brazil and is thus harder to combat. Affirmative action's advocates chide dos Santos Silva and other cautious Afro Brazilians, noting that blacks have been "feeling different" since an estimated 3.6 million slaves toiled throughout the country from 1532 to 1850. That estimate does not include the captured Africans who did not survive the brutal journey to Brazil by ship.
3. An assessment of the Latin Americanization thesis
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Sue,Christina (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ethnic and Racial Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(6) : 1058-1070
- Notes:
- In 2004, Eduardo Bonilla-Silva published an article in which he argued that the US system of race is beginning to resemble that of Latin America. This article is a critical reply to Bonilla-Silva’s Latin Americanization thesis. The author introduces a Latin American perspective.
4. Are the Americas 'sick with racism' or is it a problem at the poles? A reply to Christina A. Sue
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Bonilla-Silva,Eduardo (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Ethnic and Racial Studies
- Journal Title Details:
- 32(6) : 1071-1082
- Notes:
- Christina A. Sue commented on my 2004 article in Ethnic and Racial Studies on the Latin Americanization of racial stratification in the USA. Almost all her observations hinge on the assumption that racial stratification in Latin American countries is fundamentally structured around ‘two racial poles’. I disagree with her and in my reply do three things. First, I address three major claims or issues in her comment. Second, I point out some methodological limitations of American-centered race analysis in Latin America. Third, I conclude by discussing briefly the Obama phenomenon and suggest this event fits in many ways my Latin Americanization thesis.
5. Black movement in Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Johnson,Ollie (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1995-07-29
- Published:
- Highland Park, MI
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Michigan Citizen
- Journal Title Details:
- 35 : A6
- Notes:
- Since I have been thinking about Blacks in Brazil for years, I do know that racial identity is important and perceived differently there. For example, people who consider themselves Black or African American in the U.S. would not automatically be considered Black or African Brazilian in Brazil. People who have brown or lighter skin complexions in Brazil are mulattos, morenos, or some other non Black color category. Approximately half of Brazil's 150 million people are classified as mulatto or Black. "Pe na cozinha" means "foot in the kitchen" and "mulatinho" means "little mulatto." "Foot in the kitchen" refers to someone normally seen as white acknowledging his African ancestry because the kitchen is the kitchen of slavery in which Blacks served whites in all aspects of life.
6. Black townsmen: urban slavery and freedom in eighteenth-century Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Dantas,Mariana L. R. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- New York: Palgrave Macmillan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 280 p., Compares the experiences of persons of African origin and descent in the towns of Baltimore and Sabara, Black Townsmen reconsiders their relationship to eighteenth-century urban environments in the Americas. Following Africans and their descendants through their struggle with slavery, manumission, and life in freedom, Dantas explains how these men and women's efforts and choices helped to define the trajectory of these two towns.
7. Blacks and Latinos: Historic Alliances Must be Revisited
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Berry,W. K. (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- 1995-05-11
- Published:
- San Bernardino, CA
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Precinct Reporter
- Journal Title Details:
- 43 : A-1-1
- Notes:
- Portuguese and Spanish slavers supplied the Americas with "los Negros," the Blacks. Only those young and strong, impervious to European disease and able to withstand months of torturous living packed in the cruel quarters of slave shipholds survived the middle passage. Those who arrived, stunned and malnourished, lost in a foreign land, were easy prey to the slavers. Removed from a world that had nourished them, left to the mercy of those whose own lack of humanity prevented the recognition of theirs, they were utterly dependent and at the mercy of their captors. Vestiges of racism threaten to dismantle further progress in South America, as they do here. The prophecies of Willie Lynch, a slave owner who created a divisive plan to keep Blacks separate by fostering dissent among them, are coming true. Lynch outlined the differences in physical characteristics among the slaves-skin shade, hair texture, height, etc. By playing up these differences, Lynch promised, "The Black slave, after receiving this indoctrination, shall carry on and will become self-refueling and self-generating for hundreds of years, maybe thousands." Throughout North and South America, Lynch's plan lives on. Color lines rule, with the predominantly European strains remaining in power, and those of darker skin and crisper hair texture continue to be oppressed. It is a chilling reality that echoes down from the brutal suppression of the native peoples of Chiapas to the continued repression of Mexicans here and in their own country, to the harsh discrimination shown the Blacks of Brazil and America.
8. Blacks whites in São Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Andrews,George Reid (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 369 p., Provides a history of Brazilian racial inequality from the abolition of slavery in 1888 up to the late 1980s, showing how economic, social and political changes in Brazil during the last 100 years have shaped race relations. By examining government policies, data on employment, mainstream and Afro-Brazilian newspapers, and a variety of other sources, Andrews traces pervasive discrimination against Afro-Brazilians over time. He draws his evidence from the country's most economically important state, Sao Paolo, showing how race relations were affected by its transformation from a plantation-based economy to South America's most urban, industrialized society.
9. Blacks, Indians, and Spaniards in the Eastern Andes : reclaiming the forgotten in colonial Mizque, 1550-1782
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Brockington,Lolita Gutiérrez (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2006-01-01
- Published:
- Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 342 p., Analyzes how imperial control met with resistance and how Africans, Indians, and Spaniards, and their descendants interacted with one another. Her study uncovers an intersection and cross-fertilization of sociocultural measurements identifiable in the workplace, courts, church, and private lives. Brockington innovatively uses Spanish colonial documentary sources, including serial financial accounts of wealthy orphans, court cases, parish records, and census information of hacienda workers to elucidate race, ethnic, class, and gender issues within the colonial reality of contradiction and ambiguity.
10. Brazil's living museum: race, reform, and tradition in Bahia
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Romo,Anadelia A. (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 2010
- Published:
- Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 221 p., Chronicling the period from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the start of Brazil's military regime in 1964, Romo uncovers how the state's nonwhite majority moved from being a source of embarrassment to being a critical component of Bahia's identity.
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