Afro-Paradise. Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil, Paperback - Christen A. Smith

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Christen A. SmithNumber of pages: 280Publication date: 2016Dimensions: 151 x 227 x 20Cover type: ...

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Highlights the work of contemporary Brazilian photographers with an emphasis on images which reflect the dynamism and eclecticism of Brazilian soci...

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This book amounts to a series of stories about my experience of living and working in Brazil over a period of thirty-three years. The aim of the bo...

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About the AuthorChristen Brown teaches embroidery, quilting, ribbonwork, mixed media, and beadwork in her best-selling books. With a degree in fash...

Publisher: MIT Press LtdAuthor(s): Suely RolnikTranslator: Brian HolmesNumber of pages: 496Collection: Semiotext(e) / Foreign AgentsPublication dat...

This book opens up contemporary and novel practices of Brazil's democracy for examination, including responses to global food security, the purchas...

Uncovers an important, otherwise unrecognized century-long archive of literature and performance that reveals Cuban America as a space of overlappi...

Reducere. Two previously unpublished collections by an important Chinese American poet depict daily life inside New York's Chinatown and across the Chinese d...

In a cultural moment where racial identity is performed through Hip-hop culture's resistance to the status quo and complicity in maintaining it, Ho...

Around the year 1800, independent Native groups still effectively controlled about half the territory of the Americas. How did they maintain their ...

Democratic practices - participation, citizenship rights, and an inclusionary state - enhance human development. The book uncovers how local democr...

The present studies on Brazilian modern art seek to specify some of the dominant contradictions of capitalism's combined but uneven development as ...

Reducere. Rebelling against the Elvis-based, American-imported rock scene in late '60s Brazil, Caetano Veloso suffused lyrical Brazilian folksongs with fuzz ...

This study discusses whether there is a linguistic difference between classical Attic prose texts intended for public oral delivery and those inten...

In 1550 the German adventurer Hans Staden was serving as a gunner in a Portuguese fort on the Brazilian coast. While out hunting, he was captured b...

DescriptionBrazil, like some countries in Africa, has become a major destination for African American tourists seeking the cultural roots of the bl...

By tracing the careers of Rio's pioneering black musicians from the late nineteenth century until the 1970s, Marc A. Hertzman revises the histories...

Print and Performance in the 1820s explores a key decade of cultural change, focusing on fiction, periodicals, and theatrical performances in metro...

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From Zora Neale Hurston to Derek Walcott to Toni Morrison, New World black authors have written about African-derived religious traditions and spir...

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Troubling Traditions takes up a 21st century, field-specific conversation between scholars, educators, and artists from varying generational, geogr...

Publisher: Mimesis InternationalAuthor(s): Massimo SciarrettaNumber of pages: 300Collection: HistoryPublication date: 2022Dimensions: 210 x 142 x 2...

Explores how, in the Americas, people of African birth or descent found spiritual and social empowerment in the orbit of the Church. Draws connecti...

Brazil changed drastically in the 21st century's second decade. In 2010, the country's outgoing president Lula left office with almost 90% approval...

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Provides an account of the theatrical strategies used by consumers, farmers, agricultural laborers, and the federal government to negotiate competi...