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African diaspora in the cultures of latin america, the caribbean, and the united states
Scholars of the African Americas are sometimes segregated from one another by region or period, by language, or by discipline.Bringing together essays on fashion, the visual arts, film, literature, and history, this volume shows how our understanding of the African diaspora in the Americas can be enriched by crossing disciplinary boundaries to.
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Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin America
Imagine the tension that existed between the emerging nations and
governments throughout the Latin American world and the cultural
life of former enslaved Africans and their descendants. A world of
cultural production, in the form of literature, poetry, art, music,
and eventually film, would often simultaneously contravene or
cooperate with the newly established order of Latin American
nations negotiating independence and a new political and cultural
balance. In Black Writing, Culture, and the State in Latin
America , Jerome Branche presents the reader with the complex
landscape of art and literature among Afro-Hispanic and Latin
artists. Branche and his contributors describe individuals such as
Juan Francisco Manzano, who wrote an autobiography on the slave
experience in Cuba during the nineteenth century. The reader finds
a thriving Afro-Hispanic theatrical presence throughout Latin
America and even across the Atlantic. The role of black women in
poetry and literature comes to the forefront in the Caribbean,
presenting a powerful reminder of the diversity that defines the
region.
All too often, the disciplines of film studies, literary
criticism, and art history ignore the opportunity to collaborate in
a dialogue. Branche and his contributors present a unified
approach, however, suggesting that cultural production should not
be viewed narrowly, especially when studying the achievements of
the Afro-Latin world.
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Terms of Inclusion
In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern nation.
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Tropical Travels
Brazilian popular culture, including music, dance, theater, and film, played a key role in transnational performance circuits—inter-American and transatlantic—from the latter nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Brazilian performers both drew inspiration from and provided models for cultural production in France, Portugal, Argentina, the United States, and elsewhere. These transnational exchanges also helped construct new ideas about, and representations of, “racial\" identity in Brazil. Tropical Travels fruitfully examines how perceptions of “race\" were negotiated within popular performance in Rio de Janeiro and how these issues engaged with wider transnational trends during the period. Lisa Shaw analyzes how local cultural forms were shaped by contact with imported performance traditions and transnational vogues in Brazil, as well as by the movement of Brazilian performers overseas. She focuses specifically on samba and the maxixe in Paris between 1910 and 1922, teatro de revista (the Brazilian equivalent of vaudeville) in Rio in the long 1920s, and a popular Brazilian female archetype, the baiana, who moved to and fro across national borders and oceans. Shaw demonstrates that these transnational encounters generated redefinitions of Brazilian identity through the performance of “race\" and ethnicity in popular culture. Shifting the traditional focus of Atlantic studies from the northern to the southern hemisphere, Tropical Travels also contributes to a fuller understanding of inter-hemispheric cultural influences within the Americas.
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Trans-Afrohispanismos
Trans-afrohispanismos is an innovative approach to Afro-Hispanic studies. It focuses on the connections between peoples, territories, and media of expression at the confluence of Africa and the Hispanic world. Trans-afrohispanismos es una aproximación innovadora a los Estudios Afrohispánicos. Destaca las conexiones entre gentes, territorios y medios de expresión en la confluencia de África y el mundo hispánico.
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Beyond Confronting the Myth of Racial Democracy: The Role of Afro-Brazilian Women Scholars and Activists
Examination of current scholarship mapping the social and economic exclusion of women of African descent in Brazil reveals the important role played by Afro-Brazilian women scholars and activists in redressing the paucity, until recently, of basic data and research on this topic. It also gives rise to some initial thoughts on the national and transnational dynamics of knowledge production underlying this state of affairs. The production of knowledge on the gendered dimensions of racial exclusion has been impacted by state policy, institutional practices within academia, and the fit between the myth of racial democracy and the early second wave feminist movement's ideal of sisterhood and its Marxist-influenced focus on class. The visibility brought to racism in the region by the world conference on racism held in Durban in 2001 helped facilitate largescale projects on the life experiences of Brazilians of African descent.
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