The Brazilian Table

BRAZIL - EXOTIC, SENSUAL, MYSTERIOUS - mingles pleasure with high energy, and its cuisine is no different. The recipes of The Brazilian Ta...

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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...

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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

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...

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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...

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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

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

Holy Harlots: Femininity, Sexuality, and Black Magic in Brazil

Holy Harlots examines the intersections of social marginality, morality, and magic in contemporary Brazil by analyzing the beliefs and rel...

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The Revolt of the Whip

This short book brings to life a unique and spectacular set of events in Latin American history. In November 1910, shortly after the inaug...

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The Party of Order: The Conservatives, the State, and Slavery in the Brazilian Monarchy, 1831-1871

This study analyzes Brazil's monarchy, which adapted European ideas and practices to a creole plantation society that was traditionall...

1:49 PM

Race in Another America: The Significance of Skin Color in Brazil

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. ...

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Why Soccer Matters by Pelé

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...

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The Masters and the Slaves (Casa-Grande & Senzala): A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization

A Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilization - one of the most impressive and important documents of South American Culture-absorb...

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Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths?

Although both Brazil and the United States inherited European norms that accorded whites privileged status relative to all other racial ...

5:58 AM

Let's Make Some Noise: Axé and the African Roots of Brazilian Popular Music

Clarence Bernard Henry's book is a culmination of several years of field research on sacred and secular influences of àsé, the West Af...

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The Little Capoeira Book, Revised Edition

Nestor Capoeira, a long-time teacher of capoeira and noted mestre (master), begins this revised edition of his bestseller with an in-depth...

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The Abolition of Slavery in Brazil: The Liberation of Africans Through the Emancipation of Capital

The persistence of a raced-based division of labor has been a compelling reality in all former slave societies in the Americas. One can ...

5:54 AM

Rhythms of Resistance: African Musical Heritage in Brazil

African rhythms are at the heart of contemporary black Brazilian music. Surveying a musical legacy that encompasses over 400 years, Peter ...

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Focus: Music of Northeast Brazil

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Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil by Livio Sansone

Sansone, Lívio - Blackness Without Ethnicity Race by lascampos

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