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    2. Culture is our weapon: making music and changing lives in Rio de Janeiro

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Neate,Patrick (Author) and Platt,Damian (Author)
    Format:
    Book, Whole
    Publication Date:
    2010
    Published:
    New York: Penguin Books
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Notes:
    Originally published: London : Latin American Bureau, 2006., 205 p., Relates the story of Grupo Cultural AfroReggae, an organization based in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, that employs music and an appreciation for black culture to inspire residents of shantytowns to resist the drugs that are ruining their neighborhoods.

    3. Family, Patriarchalism, and Social Change in Brazil

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    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Costa, Dora Isabel Paiva da (Author) and Samara,Eni de Mesquita (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    1997
    Published:
    Austin, TX: The University of Texas at Austin
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Latin American Research Review
    Journal Title Details:
    32(1) : 212-225
    Notes:
    Review the books The Disappearance of the Dowry: Women, Families, and Social Change in Sao Paulo, 1600-1900, by Muriel Nazzari, Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil: Santana De Parnaiba, 1580-1822, by Alida C. Metcalf, The Family in Bahia, Brazil, 1870-1945, by Dain Borges, and Gosto Do Pecado: Casamento E Sexualidade Nos Manuais De Confessores Dos Seculos XVI E XVII, by Angela Mendes de Almeida.;