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  • That Hair

    “The story of my curly hair,” says Mila, the narrator of Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida’s autobiographically inspired tragicomedy, “intersects with the story of at least two countries and, by extension, the indirect story of the relations among several continents: a geopolitics.”

  • Researchers seek fuller picture of first Africans in America

    WASHINGTON (AP) — The first Africans to arrive in English-controlled North America were so little noted by history that many are known today by only their first names: Antony and Isabella, Angelo, Frances and Peter.

  • African Heritage and Memories of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic World

    This book explores the history of African tangible and intangible heritages and its links with the public memory of slavery in Brazil and Angola. The two countries are deeply connected, given how most enslaved Africans, forcibly brought to Brazil during the era of the Atlantic slave trade, were from West Central Africa.

  • Race relations in Angola

    Race relations in Angola This is Africa: Africa for a New Generation 2012-09-26 Lula Ahrens ANGOLA, LUANDA | “Angolan women don’t like the Portuguese,” says Amelia (30, office cleaner) in a matter-of-fact manner to This is Africa. If you’re not familiar with Angola you might expect this to be the start of a rant against…

  • Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World

    The book covers the gamut of inter-ethnic experiences throughout the Portuguese-speaking world, from the sixteenth century to the present day, integrating contributions from history, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, literary, and cultural studies. It offers a radical updating of both empirical data and methodologies, and aims to contribute to current debates on racism and ethnic relations…

  • Interracial Marriage in the Last Portuguese Colonial Empire

    Interracial Marriage in the Last Portuguese Colonial Empire Journal of Portuguese History Volume 5, Number 1, Summer 2007 23 pages ISSN: 1645-6432 Maria Eugénia Mata, Associate Professor of Economic History and History of Economics University of Lisbon The paper presents both the institutional background and the government philosophy regarding equality and non-prejudice within all of…

  • The Rise of a New Consciousness: Early Euro-African Voices of Dissent in Colonial Angola

    The Rise of a New Consciousness: Early Euro-African Voices of Dissent in Colonial Angola Journal of Portuguese History Volume 5, Number 2, Winter 2007 15 pages ISSN: 1645-6432 Jacopo Corrado Events such as the 1820 Liberal Revolution in Portugal and the 1822 declaration of independence in Brazil appeared to the Creole elite based in the…

  • The Creole Elite and the Rise of Angolan Proto-Nationalism, 1870–1920

    The Creole Elite and the Rise of Angolan Proto-Nationalism, 1870–1920 Cambria Press 2008-09-08 340 pages ISBN: 9781604975291 Jacopo Corrado This book is about Angolan literature and culture. It investigates a segment of Angolan history and literature, with which even Portuguese-speaking readers are generally not familiar. Its main purpose is to define the features and the…