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2. Entangled Roots: Race, Historical Literature, and Citizenship in the Nineteenth-Century Americas
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Genova,Thomas (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Published:
- California: University of California, Santa Cruz
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- ProQuest Dissertations and Theses
- Notes:
- Examines in the transnational conversation on the place of Afro-descendants in the republican nation-state that occurred in New-World historical literature during the 19th century. Tracing the evolution of republican thought in the Americas from the classical liberalism of the independence period to the more democratic forms of government that took hold in the late 1800s, the pages that follow will chart the circulation of ideas regarding race and republican citizenship in the Atlantic World during the long nineteenth century, the changes that those ideas undergo as they circulate, and the racialized tensions that surface as they move between and among Europe and various locations throughout the Americas. Focusing on a diverse group of writers--including the anonymous Cuban author of Jicoténcal; the North Americans Thomas Jefferson, James Fenimore Cooper, and Mary Mann; the Argentines Domingo Faustino Sarmiento and Eduarda Mansilla de García; the Dominican Manuel de Jesús Galván; the Haitian Émile Nau; and the Brazilian Euclides da Cunha.
3. Explaining Racial Disparities in Infant Health in Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Nyarko,Kwame A. (Author), Lopez-Camelo,Jorge (Author), Castilla,Eduardo E. (Author), and Wehby,George L. (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Publication Date:
- 2013-04
- Published:
- American Public Health Association
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- American Journal of Public Health
- Journal Title Details:
- 103(4) : 1021
- Notes:
- Seeks to quantify how socioeconomic, health care, demographic, and geographic effects explain racial disparities in low birth weight (LBW) and preterm birth (PTB) rates in Brazil. Methods. Focused on disparities in LBW and PTB prevalence between infants of African ancestry alone or African mixed with other ancestries, and European ancestry alone. Differences in prenatal care use and geographic location were the most important contributors, followed by socioeconomic differences. The model explained the majority of the disparities for mixed African ancestry and part of the disparity for African ancestry alone.
4. Feminismo negro: raça, identidade e saúde reprodutiva no Brasil (1975-1993)
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Damasco,Mariana Santos (Author), Maio,Marcos Chor (Author), and Monteiro,Simone (Author)
- Format:
- Journal Article
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2012 jan
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- Revista Estudos Feministas
- Journal Title Details:
- 20(1) : 133-151
- Notes:
- Investigates the interface between gender, color/race and public health in Brazil, focusing on the importance of reproductive health for the formation of a black feminism in the country, between the years 1975 to 1993.
5. In Brazil racism takes many hues
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Pitts,Leonard (Author)
- Format:
- Newspaper Article
- Publication Date:
- Jul 12-Jul 18, 2007
- Published:
- New York, NY
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Journal Title:
- New York Beacon
- Journal Title Details:
- 28 : 13
- Notes:
- In this, he's not unlike his counterparts in the United States, where black people also have an extensive vocabulary to describe variations in skin tone. In the United States, one can be "high yellow" (i.e., of very light skin); one can be "red" (i.e., with a reddish tint; one of Malcolm X's early nicknames was "Detroit Red"); or one can be any of a number of synonyms for dark. Like, for instance, "Smokey." In fact, the famous (and "high yellow") Motown singer William Robinson was given that nickname in affectionate irony by one of his father's friends - sort of like calling a fat guy Tiny. The same is not true in Brazil. And if the United States is a country where black people with light skin used to sometimes "pass," i.e., pretend to be white, well, in this country "passing is a national institution." So says Elisa Nascimento with a laugh. She is white, American-born and the wife of Abdias do Nascimento, a 90-year-old black Brazilian artist and political icon. And the insistence of some Brazilian blacks on "passing," she says, has political consequences in that it tends to distort statistics on black life. "The way racism works in Brazil . . . there is a hierarchy, and so people tend to identify themselves lighter than they necessarily would be." "It was a rough time," she says in her imperfect English. "For me, was impossible to live there. We could not be married. Why I married with a black guy, you know? So when I say to you that Brazil was different . . . even my first husband didn't think of himself as black. In Brazil, he was a Brazilian, even though he was black. He never thought of himself as someone different from me because he was another color."
6. Religião, raça e identidade: Colóquio do Centenário da Morte de Nina Rodrigues
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Almeida,Adroaldo J. S. (Editor), Santos,Lyndon de A. (Editor), and Ferretti,Sérgio Figueiredo (Editor)
- Format:
- Book, Edited
- Language:
- Portuguese
- Publication Date:
- 2009
- Published:
- São Paulo, SP, Brasil: Paulinas: Edições ABHR
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Papers presented at the 8th Simpósio da Associação Brasileira de História das Religiões, held in São Luís (MA) on May 2-5, 2006 and Colóquio Centenário da Morte de Nina Rodrigues held May 2006., 191 p.
7. The color of sound: Race, religion, and music in Brazil
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Burdick,John, (Author)
- Format:
- Book, Whole
- Publication Date:
- 01/01; 2013
- Published:
- New York: New York University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- Throughout Brazil, Afro-Brazilians face widespread racial prejudice. Many turn to religion, with Afro-Brazilians disproportionately represented among Protestants, the fastest-growing religious group in the country. Officially, Brazilian Protestants do not involve themselves in racial politics. Behind the scenes, however, the community is deeply involved in the formation of different kinds of blackness—and its engagement in racial politics is rooted in the major new cultural movement of black music. In this account, the complex ideas about race, racism, and racial identity that have grown up among Afro-Brazilians in the black music scene are explored. The author immersed himself for nearly a year in the vibrant worlds of black gospel, gospel rap, and gospel samba in order to better understand racial identity and the social effects of music. Delving into the everyday music-making practices of these scenes, it is shows how the creative process itself shapes how Afro-Brazilian artists experience and understand their racial identities. The results challenge much of what some people thought they knew about Brazil's Protestants, provoking one to think in new ways about their role in their country's struggle to combat racism.
8. White fears and fantasies: writing the nation in post-abolition Brazil and Cuba
- Collection:
- Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
- Contributers:
- Nash,Lyle Scott (Author)
- Format:
- Dissertation/Thesis
- Publication Date:
- 2008
- Published:
- New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University
- Location:
- African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Notes:
- 216 p., Discusses the literary representations of Afro-descendants in mid- to late-19th century Cuba and Brazil, and how these representations impacted the development of the national narratives and mapped out the future social terrain for blacks and whites in both countries.