African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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O foco da pesquisa se dirige para uma rede de agrupamentos negros rurais e urbanos e para trajetórias individuais que indicam deslocamentos coletivos. A partir de trabalho de campo realizado em Conceição dos Caetanos foram levantadas várias comunidades negras rurais situadas entre o litoral e o sertão no Estado do Ceará: Água Preta, Goiabeiras e Lagoa do Ramo. Foram identificados alguns núcleos de migrantes que são originários dessas áreas e residem em Fortaleza. Há também notificação de movimentos migratórios para a região amazônica. Essa rede de parentesco abrange igualmente outras localidades que constituíram agrupamentos negros e marcaram as rotas dos velhos e dos antepassados dos núcleos citados. Essa movimentação aparece combinada com a permanência no agrupamento rural ou urbano. Portanto, este estudo põe em questão o papel da mobilidade territorial na formação da identidade. Para a reflexão do quadro atual, tem-se em vista a emergência das comunidades negras rurais em processo de reconhecimento como "remanescentes de quilombo."
African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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353 p, Historians and anthropologists consider how marginalized spiritual traditions—such as obeah, Vodou, and Santería—have been understood and represented across the Caribbean since the seventeenth century. In essays focused on Cuba, Haiti, Jamaica, Martinique, Puerto Rico, Trinidad and Tobago, and the wider Anglophone Caribbean, the contributors explore the fields of power within which Caribbean religions have been produced, modified, appropriated, and policed.
Obeah encompasses a wide variety of beliefs and practices involving the control or channelling of supernatural/spiritual forces, usually for socially beneficial ends such as treating illness, bringing good fortune, protecting against harm, and avenging wrongs. Although obeah was sometimes used to harm others, Europeans during the slave period distorted its positive role in the lives of many enslaved persons. In post-emancipation times, colonial officials, local white elites and their ideological allies exaggerated the antisocial dimensions of obeah, minimizing or ignoring its positive functions. This negative interpretation became so deeply ingrained that many West Indians accept it to varying degrees today, although the positive attributes of obeah are still acknowledged in most parts of the anglophone Caribbean. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT];
Writer Zora Neale Hurston notes the identity and culture of the Africans in the U.S., in which there is struggle in resisting with violence against the slave societies and racial discrimination to maintain the culture. Mentions the association of black ritual practices on Hurston's writings, "Mules and Men" and "Moses, Man of the Mountain," where slavery is considered as factor of spreading the folk arts.
