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2. O quilombo dos palmares
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Carneiro,Edison (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 1966
- Published:
- Rio de Janeiro: Civilização Brasileira
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 144 p., Analyzes African cultural dimensions in Brazil, especially religious forms.
3. Quilombo
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Diegues,Carlos (Author), Pompeo,Antonio (Author), Arraes,Augusto (Author), and Arraes,Augusto (Editor)
- Format:
- Video/DVD
- Language:
- por
- Publication Date:
- 1991
- Published:
- New York, NY: New Yorker Video
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 1 videocassette (114 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in; VHS., A dramatization which chronicles the Palmares quilombo, the most famous of the 17th century Brazilian groups of runaway black slaves. Shows how this self-governing community flourished for several decades under the reign of the legendary chieftan Ganga Zumba; Writer, director, Carlos Diegues. Videocassette release of the 1984 motion picture; In Portuguese with English subtitles; Director of photography, Lauro Escorel Filho; music, Gilberto Gil
4. Quilombo country
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Adams,Leonard (Director)
- Format:
- Video/DVD
- Language:
- In English; interviews in Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2005
- Published:
- New York: Moving Eye Productions
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- videorecording; 1 videodisc (75 min.), Provides a portrait of rural communities in Brazil that were either founded by runaway slaves or began from abandoned plantations. This type of community is known as a quilombo, from an Angolan word that means "encampment." As many as 2,000 quilombos exist today.