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Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 27, 2015
Futebol Nation: The Story of Brazil Through Soccer
6:52 AM
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...
The Hidden History of Capoeira: A Collision of Cultures in the Brazilian Battle Dance
6:48 AM
Capoeira, a Brazilian battle dance and national sport, has become popular all over the world. First brought to Brazil by African slaves a...
Saturday, July 25, 2015
Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition SãoPaolo and Salvador
1:02 PM
Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won explores the ways Afro-Brazilians in two major cities adapted to the new conditions of life after the aboli...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
Terms of Inclusion: Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil
12:20 PM
In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, a...
Monday, February 9, 2015
The Berimbau: Soul of Brazilian Music
6:55 AM
The Brazilian berimbau, a musical bow, is most commonly associated with the energetic martial art/dance/game of capoeira. This study explo...
Sunday, January 11, 2015
Black Art in Brazil: Expressions of Identity
7:35 AM
For decades, Afro-Brazilian art was primarily associated with religious themes. However, developments in the national discourse on race, e...
Sunday, September 7, 2014
Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil
7:23 AM
Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and rel...
Thursday, July 31, 2014
The Revolt of the Whip
4:59 AM
This short book brings to life a unique and spectacular set of events in Latin American history. In November 1910, shortly after the inaug...
Monday, July 28, 2014
The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871
1:49 PM
This study analyzes Brazil's monarchy, which adapted European ideas and practices to a creole plantation society that was traditionall...
Tuesday, July 8, 2014
Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil
1:11 PM
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. ...
Why Soccer Matters by Pelé
12:52 PM
Soccer. Football. The beautiful game. The world’s most popular sport goes by many names, but for decades, fans have agreed on one thing: t...
Sunday, July 6, 2014
The Masters and the Slaves (Casa-Grande & Senzala): A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization
9:17 AM
A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization - one of the most impressive and important documents of South American Culture-absorb...
Wednesday, May 28, 2014
Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?
5:58 AM
Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial ...
Monday, May 19, 2014
Let's Make Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music
1:26 PM
Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of field research on sacred and secular influences of à sé, the West Af...
Wednesday, April 23, 2014
The Little Capoeira Book, Revised Edition
6:22 AM
Nestor Capoeira, a long-time teacher of capoeira and noted mestre (master), begins this revised edition of his bestseller with an in-depth...
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The Liberation of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital
5:54 AM
The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can ...
Rhythms of Resistance: African Musical Heritage in Brazil
5:40 AM
African rhythms are at the heart of contemporary black Brazilian music. Surveying a musical legacy that encompasses over 400 years, Peter ...
Tuesday, February 18, 2014
Friday, February 14, 2014
Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil by Livio Sansone
4:33 PM
Sansone, LÃvio - Blackness Without Ethnicity Race by lascampos
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