Mapping Diaspora: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil, Paperback - Patricia De Santana Pinho

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

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An ultimate travel book, combining exquisite writing on food with history, culture and politics, to create an intelligent and enthralling portrait ...

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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...

Reducere. Brazil was the American society that received the largest contingent of African slaves in the Americas and the longest lasting slave regime in the ...

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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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...

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

Demonstrates that, similar to their white counterparts, African American authors - including Ralph Ellison, Toni Morrison and Countee Cullen - have...

Publisher: Pegasus Elliot Mackenzie PublishersAuthor(s): Patricia D LucasNumber of pages: 35Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 155 x 155 x 10Cover t...

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

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

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

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

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...

Winner of the Caribbean Studies Association's 2016 Barbara T. Christian Award for Best Book in the Humanities Tourists flock to the Caribbean for i...

Reducere. African American traditional medicine is an American classic that emerged out of the necessity of its people to survive. It began with the healing ...

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

Reducere. Growing up as a first-generation Italian-American, learning how to cook was a must. My favorite food was pasta and I learned by watching and helpin...

Reducere. DescriptionThis stunning book represents the most comprehensive analysis to date of the complex relationships between black political thought and b...

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

Sàngó in Africa and the African Diaspora is a multidisciplinary, transregional exploration of Sàngó religious traditions in West Africa and beyond....

Reducere. For centuries Western scholarship, and the African scholars seduced by this body of knowledge, have not been interested in African "religions" per ...

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Reducere. Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds explores the critically neglected intersection of Native and African American cultures. This interdisciplinary col...

Looks at photograph collections of four Black German families taken between 1900 and the end of World War II and a set of portraits of Afro-Caribbe...

Beautyscapes is the first book to focus specifically on cosmetic surgery tourism. It draws on key themes of interest to students and researchers in...

Most Christian are quick to agree that the Bible is the word of God. Very few have continually experienced how powerful Scripture can be in ones ac...

In Africa, where the birthrate of twins is among the highest in the world, twins can be seen as a burden to their families and a threat to the soci...

Publisher: University of California PressAuthor(s): Graham Denyer WillisIllustration(s): 7 b-w illustrations, 1 mapNumber of pages: 230Publication ...

Reducere. "An extraordinary, innovative, and generative book." - George Lipsitz, author of How Racism Takes PlaceAbout the Author: Shana L. Redmond is Assist...

The first scholar to focus on collective consciousness and resistance to enslavement before the Haitian Revolution, Eddins makes a major contributi...

Explores the epistemological possibilities of the 'Black world' paradigm and traces a literary and cultural cartography of the monde noir and its c...

Reducere. Examining how African American males end up in dead-end classes, this book explores what must be done to change this trend, asking such questions a...

As downward mobility continues to be an international issue, Robin Brooks offers a timely intervention between the humanities and social sciences b...

Publisher: University of Illinois PressAuthor(s): Mecca Jamilah SullivanNumber of pages: 288Collection: New Black Studies SeriesPublication date: 2...