Futebol Nation: The Story of Brazil Through Soccer

No nation is as closely identified with the game of soccer as Brazil. For over a century, Brazil’s people, politicians, and poets have fou...

6:52 AM

The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance

Capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, has become popular all over the world. First brought to Brazil by African slaves a...

6:48 AM

Blacks of the Rosary: Memory and History in Minas Gerais, Brazil

Blacks of the Rosary tells the story of the Afro-Brazilian communities that developed within lay religious brotherhoods dedicated to Our ...

4:19 PM

Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition SãoPaolo and Salvador

Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won explores the ways Afro-Brazilians in two major cities adapted to the new conditions of life after the aboli...

1:02 PM

Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil

In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, a...

12:20 PM

The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music

The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira. This study explo...

6:55 AM

White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity

White Negritude analyzes the discourse of mestiçagem (mestizaje, métissage, or "mixing") in Brazil. Focused on Gilberto Freyre...

9:35 AM

Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identity

For decades, Afro-Brazilian art was primarily associated with religious themes. However, developments in the national discourse on race, e...

7:35 AM