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.
Sudarkasa,Niara (Author) and Nwachuku,Levi A. (Author)
Format:
Book, Whole
Publication Date:
1996
Published:
Lincoln University, PA: Lincoln University Press
Location:
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
288 p, Includes Maghan Keita's "Linking precolonial Africa and Pre-Columbian America: the implications and their impact on Old World/New World scholarship," Janice- Marie McDonaldand's "An afrocentric approach to Afro-Latino literature" and Richard Allsopp's "African systems in Caribbean communication."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Notes:
202 p, Contents: The French West Indies à l'heure de l'Europe : an overview /; Richard D.E. Burton,; Fred Reno --; Constitutional and political change in the French Caribbean /; Helen Hintjens --; Politics and society in Martinique /; Fred Reno --; Guadeloupean consensus /; Jean-Paul Eluther --; Society, culture and politics in French Guiana /; Bridget Jones,; Elie Stephenson --; Dialectics of descent and phenotypes in racial classification in Martinique /; Michel Giraud --; The Declaration of the Treaty of Maastricht on the ultra-peripheral regions of the Community : an assessment /; Emmanuel Jos --; The French Antilles and the wider Caribbean /; Maurice Burac --; West Indians in France /; Alain Anselin --; Women from Guadeloupe and Martinique /; Arlette Gautier --; The idea of difference in contemporary French West Indian thought : Négritude, Antillanité, Créolité /; Richard D.E. Burton --; French West Indian writing since 1970 /; Beverley Ormerod
Suggests an orientation for the scrutiny of black lay societies in Brazil. Ethnicity in the formation and development of black lay societies; Changes in the development of black lay societies
