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The Sorcery of Color
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 337

The Sorcery of Color

An examination of how racial and gender hierarchies are intertwined in Brazil.

Africans in Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 240

Africans in Brazil

A daring and thoughtful approach to the understanding of the African experiences in Latin American societies. Copyright © Libri GmbH. All rights reserved.

Abdias Nascimento, a luta na política
  • Language: pt-BR
  • Pages: 276

Abdias Nascimento, a luta na política

Abdias Nascimento foi uma das mais importantes e brilhantes lideranças do Brasil, dedicando-se intensamente ao enfrentamento do racismo e à promoção do legado cultural afro-brasileiro. Escritor, artista plástico, dramaturgo, deixou um legado cultural incontornável através do TEN, Teatro Experimental do Negro, das pinturas que realçam sua ligação com a cultura africana e dos livros que denunciam o racismo e a violência das relações étnico raciais no Brasil. Na década de 1980, volta-se à política institucional do Congresso Nacional, onde acreditava ser necessário pôr em pauta as questões raciais e implementar políticas públicas de reparação. Muito do debate e das políticas públicas que assistimos hoje e que foram implementadas no país devemos à sua atuação parlamentar. Essa atuação é o objeto deste livro.

Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2018-09-04
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  • Publisher: Routledge

Latin America has a rich and complex social history marked by slavery, colonialism, dictatorships, rebellions, social movements and revolutions. Comparative Racial Politics in Latin America explores the dynamic interplay between racial politics and hegemonic power in the region. It investigates the fluid intersection of social power and racial politics and their impact on the region’s histories, politics, identities and cultures. Organized thematically with in-depth country case studies and a historical overview of Afro-Latin politics, the volume provides a range of perspectives on Black politics and cutting-edge analyses of Afro-descendant peoples in the region. Regional coverage includes...

Relocating the Sacred
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 482

Relocating the Sacred

Although Brazil is home to the largest African diaspora, the religions of its African descendants have often been syncretized and submerged, first under the force of colonialism and enslavement and later under the spurious banner of a harmonious national Brazilian character. Relocating the Sacred argues that these religions nevertheless have been preserved and manifested in a strategic corpus of shifting masks and masquerades of Afro-Brazilian identity. Following the re-Africanization process and black consciousness movement of the 1970s to 1990s, Afro-Brazilians have questioned racial democracy, seeing how its claim to harmony actually dispossesses them of political power. By embracing African deities as a source of creative inspiration and resistance, Afro-Brazilians have appropriated syncretism as a means of not only popularizing African culture but also decolonizing themselves from the past shame of slavery. This book maps the role of African heritage in—and relocation of the sacred to—three sites of Brazilian cultural production: ritual altars, literature, and carnival culture.

Race in Translation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 384

Race in Translation

  • Categories: Law
  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2012-05-28
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  • Publisher: NYU Press

While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between three zones—the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and figurative translation of these multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in Brazil. The authors also interrogate an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians like Sarkozy and Cameron join hands with some leftist intellectuals like Benn Michaels, Žižek, and Bourdieu in condemning “multiculturalism” and “identity politics.” At once a report from various “fronts” in the culture wars, a mapping of the germane literatures, and an argument about methods of reading the cross-border movement of ideas, the book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the Diasporic and the Transnational.

Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 460

Pan Africanism in the African Diaspora

Walters (political science, Howard U.) uses the tools of comparative politics for examining similar Black and white social institutions and organizations in the US and other countries and for creating a "tailored" Pan African perspective as a criteria with which to describe the interactive relationships between the American Black community and Blacks in Britain, South Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Afro-Latin America
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 133

Afro-Latin America

Two-thirds of Africans, both free and enslaved, who came to the Americas from 1500 to 1870 came to Spanish America and Brazil. Yet Afro-Latin Americans have been excluded from narratives of their hemisphere’s history. George Reid Andrews redresses this omission by making visible the lives and labors of black Latin Americans in the New World.

The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 756

The Routledge Companion to African Diaspora Art History

  • Categories: Art

This is an authoritative companion that is global in scope, recognizing the presence of African Diaspora artists across the world. It is a bold and broad reframing of this neglected branch of art history, challenging dominant presumptions about the field. Diaspora pertains to the global scattering or dispersal of, in this instance, African peoples, as well as their patterns of movement from the mid twentieth century onwards. Chapters in this book emphasize the importance of cross-fertilization, interconnectedness, and intersectionality in the framing of African Diaspora art history. The book stresses the complexities of artists born within, or living and working within, the African continent...

The Dialectic Is in the Sea
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 408

The Dialectic Is in the Sea

Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth century Beatriz Nascimento (1942–1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil’s Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker whose work offers a radical reimagining of gender, space, politics, and spirituality around the Atlantic and across the Black diaspora. Her powerful voice still resonates today, reflecting a deep commitment to political organizing, revisionist historiography, and the lived experience of Black women. The Dialectic Is in the Sea is the first English-language collection of writings by this vitally important figure in the global tradition of Bla...