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  • The Great Seducer: writings on Gilberto Freyre, from 1945 until today (O Grande Sedutor: escritos sobre Gilberto Freyre de 1945 até hoje)

    The Great Seducer: writings on Gilberto Freyre, from 1945 until today (O Grande Sedutor: escritos sobre Gilberto Freyre de 1945 até hoje) Cassará Publishing House (Blog) 2011 724 pages 16 X 23 cm ISBN: 978-85-64892-01-9 Edson Nery da Fonseca, Professor Emeritus University of Brasilia The book is the result of more than sixty years of study…

  • Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory

    Creolization: History, Ethnography, Theory Left Coast Press March 2007 276 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-59874-278-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-59874-279-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-61132-467-9 eBook Rental (180 Days) ISBN: 978-1-61132-467-9 Edited by Charles Stewart Department of Anthropology University College London Social scientists have used the term “Creolization” to evoke cultural fusion and the emergence of new…

  • Beyond Fixed or Fluid: Degrees of Fluidity in Racial Identification in Latin America

    Beyond Fixed or Fluid: Degrees of Fluidity in Racial Identification in Latin America The Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America Princeton University 2012-05-23 60 pages Edward E. Telles, Professor of Sociology Princeton University Tianna S. Paschel, Post Doctoral Fellow (Neubauer Family Assistant Professor of Political Science as of July 2012) Department of Political…

  • Kept in, kept out: the Formation of Racial Identity in Brazil, 1930-1937

    Kept in, kept out: the Formation of Racial Identity in Brazil, 1930-1937 Simon Fraser University November 1996 95 pages Veronica Armstrong Thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in the Latin American Studies Program This thesis examines the roles of historian Gilberto Freyre and the Sao Paulo…

  • Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century

    Fetishes and Monuments: Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the 20th Century Berghahn Books 2007 224 pages Hardback ISBN: 978-1-84545-363-3 Paberback ISBN: ISBN 978-1-84545-711-2 Roger Sansi, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology Goldsmith’s College, London One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome…

  • Triangular Mirrors and Moving Colonialisms

    Triangular Mirrors and Moving Colonialisms Etnográfica Volume 6, Number 1 (2002) pages 127-140 Anani Dzidzienyo, Associate Professor of Africana Studies and Portuguese & Brazilian Studies Brown University Though there does not exist an undifferentiated colonialism category because of specificities relating to historical time conjunctions, the interfacing of such conjunctions with metropolitan projects, and the modalities…

  • Race Matters: Race, Telenovela Representation, and Discourse in Contemporary Brazil

    Race Matters: Race, Telenovela Representation, and Discourse in Contemporary Brazil University of Iowa May 2010 193 pages Samantha Nogueira Joyce A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Doctor of Philosophy degree in Communication Studies in the Graduate College of The University of Iowa In Race Matters: Race, Telenovela Representation, and Discourse…

  • Race and History in Brazil (Denying Brazil / Aleijadinho: Passion, Glory and Torment)

    Race and History in Brazil (Denying Brazil / Aleijadinho: Passion, Glory and Torment) Facets Multi-Media 2000 (Release date 2011-02-22) 192 minutes Brazil Product Code: DV100942 (2-DVD set) Joel Zito Araújo Geraldo Santos Pereira   Race and its impact on the art and history of Brazil are highlighted in this two-disc set. Joel Zito Araújo’s documentary…

  • The Land of Miscegenation: Is the Racial Democracy Theory in Brazil a Myth?

    The Land of Miscegenation: Is the Racial Democracy Theory in Brazil a Myth? Morgan State University May 2005 86 pages Publication Number: AAT 1430902 ISBN: 9780542025518 Makini Ramisi Chaka A Thesis Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree Master of Arts This research is designed to show that Brazil’s racial democracy theory,…

  • The White Media: Politics of Representation, Race, Gender and Symbolic Voilence in Brazilian Telenovelas

    The White Media: Politics of Representation, Race, Gender and Symbolic Voilence in Brazilian Telenovelas University of Texas, Austin May 2010 47 pages Monique H. Ribeiro Report Presented to the Faculty of the Graduate School of The University of Texas at Austin in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTER OF ARTS Brazil…