Author : Abdias do Nascimento
Publisher : The Majority Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 13,43 MB
Release : 1989
Category : History
ISBN : 9780912469263
A penetrating analysis of Brazilian history,politics, art, literature, drama, culture, and,religion make this the most authoritative,Afro-Brazilian perspective available.
Author : Smita A. Rahman
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 225 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 2022-12-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1000788814
Globalizing Political Theory is guided by the need to understand political theory as deeply embedded in local networks of power, identity, and structure, and to examine how these networks converge and diverge with the global. With the help of this book, students of political theory no longer need to learn about ideas in a vacuum with little or no attention paid to how such ideas are responses to varying local political problems in different places, times, and contexts. Key features include: Central Conceptual Framework: Introducing readers to what it means to “globalize” political theory and to move beyond the traditional western canon and actively engage with a multiplicity of perspectives. Organization: Focused on key topics essential for an introductory class aimed at both globalizing political theory and showing how political theory itself is a globalizing activity. Themes: Colonialism and Empire; Gender and Sexuality; Religion and Secularism; Marxism, Socialism, and Globalization; Democracy and Protest; and Race, Ethnicity, and Indigeneity. Pedagogy: Each chapter features theoretical concepts and definitions, political and historical context, key authors and biographical context, textual evidence and exegesis from the foundational texts in that thematic area, a list of discussion questions, and a list of resources for further reading. Committed to a multiplicity of perspectives and an active engagement between the global and the local, Globalizing Political Theory connects directly with undergraduate and graduate-level courses in political theory, global political theory, and non-western political thought.
Author : Abdias Nascimento
Publisher : Editora Perspectiva S.A.
Page : 115 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 2016-06-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8527310864
O conceito de "democracia racial" foi (e ainda é) um mantra do orgulho nacional. Daqueles que recusam a realidade. Uma das maiores referências na defesa dos direitos dos negros no Brasil, mesmo após sua morte, Abdias Nascimento sobrepõe testemunhos pessoais, reflexões, comentários e críticas, opondo o discurso oficial sobre a condição social e cultural do negro brasileiro à realidade, fazendo a desconstrução do que se convencionou chamar de "democracia racial", cenário utópico e irreal no qual "pretos e brancos convivem harmoniosamente, desfrutando iguais oportunidades de existência, sem nenhuma interferência, nesse jogo de paridade social, das respectivas origens raciais ou étnicas." Conteúdo da obra: | Prefácio à Edição Brasileira [Florestan Fernandes] | Prefácio à Edição Nigeriana [Wole Soyinka] | Prólogo: A História de uma Rejeição | I. Introdução | II. Escravidão: O Mito do Senhor Benevolente | III. Exploração Sexual da Mulher Africana | IV. O Mito do "Africano Livre" | V. O Branqueamento da Raça: Uma Estratégia de Genocídio | VI. Discussão Sobre Raça: Proibida | VII. Discriminação: Realidade Racial | VIII. Imagem Racial Internacional | IX. O Embranquecimento Cultural: Outra Estratégia de Genocídio | X. A Perseguida Persistência da Cultura Africana no Brasil | XI. Sincretismo ou Folclorização? | XII. A Bastardização da Cultura Afro-Brasileira | XIII. A Estética da Brancura nos Artistas Negros Aculturados | XIV. Uma Reação Contra o Embranquecimento: O Teatro Experimental do Negro | XV. Conclusão | Anexos | 1: Colóquio do Segundo Festival Mundial de Artes e Culturas Negras e Africanas: Relatório das Minorias | 2: Teatro Negro-Brasileiro: Uma Ausência Conspícua | 3: Arte Afro-Brasileira: Um Espírito Libertador | Posfácio: O Genocídio no Terceiro Milênio [Elisa Larkin Nascimento] | Notas | Bibliografia
Author : Elisa Larkin Nascimento
Publisher : Temple University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 1592133525
An examination of how racial and gender hierarchies are intertwined in Brazil.
Author : George Reid Andrews
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 14,34 MB
Release : 1991
Category : History
ISBN : 9780299131043
In Buried Indians, Laurie Hovell McMillin presents the struggle of her hometown, Trempealeau, Wisconsin, to determine whether platform mounds atop Trempealeau Mountain constitute authentic Indian mounds. This dispute, as McMillin subtly demonstrates, reveals much about the attitude and interaction - past and present - between the white and Indian inhabitants of this Midwestern town. McMillin's account, rich in detail and sensitive to current political issues of American Indian interactions with the dominant European American culture, locates two opposing views: one that denies a Native American presence outright and one that asserts its long history and ruthless destruction. The highly reflective oral histories McMillin includes turn Buried Indians into an accessible, readable portrait of a uniquely American culture clash and a dramatic narrative grounded in people's genuine perceptions of what the platform mounds mean.
Author : Edward E. Telles
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 45,9 MB
Release : 2014-04-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 140083743X
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that race relations in Brazil are far more harmonious because the country encourages race mixture rather than formal or informal segregation. More recently, however, scholars have challenged this national myth, seeking to show that race relations are characterized by exclusion, not inclusion, and that fair-skinned Brazilians continue to be privileged and hold a disproportionate share of wealth and power. In this sociological and demographic study, Edward Telles seeks to understand the reality of race in Brazil and how well it squares with these traditional and revisionist views of race relations. He shows that both schools have it partly right--that there is far more miscegenation in Brazil than in the United States--but that exclusion remains a serious problem. He blends his demographic analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, history, and political theory to try to "understand" the enigma of Brazilian race relations--how inclusiveness can coexist with exclusiveness. The book also seeks to understand some of the political pathologies of buying too readily into unexamined ideas about race relations. In the end, Telles contends, the traditional myth that Brazil had harmonious race relations compared with the United States encouraged the government to do almost nothing to address its shortcomings.
Author : George Reid Andrews
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 45,17 MB
Release : 2004-07-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0195152328
Covering the last two hundred years, and including Spanish America, Brazil, and the Caribbean, this book examines how African-descended people made their way out of slavery and into freedom, and how, once free, they helped build social and political democracy in the region.
Author : Liah Greenfeld
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 497 pages
File Size : 33,70 MB
Release : 2020-09-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1789903440
Assembling scholarship on the subject of nationalism from around the world, this Research Handbook brings to the attention of the reader research showcasing the unprecedented expansion of the scholarly field in general and offers a diversity of perspectives on the topic. It highlights the disarray in Western social sciences and the rise in the relative importance of previously independent scholarly traditions of China and post-Soviet societies. Nationalism is the field of study where the mutual relevance of these traditions is both most clearly evident and particularly consequential.
Author : Niyi Afolabi
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 29,96 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1580462626
An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.
Author : Teun A. van Dijk
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 20,10 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1793615489
Antiracist Discourse in Brazil: From Abolition to Affirmative Action follows Teun A. van Dijk’s earlier studies on racist discourse in Europe, the USA, and Latin America. This book focuses on antiracist discourse, focusing on the history of the discourse against slavery and racism and in favor of abolition and affirmative action in Brazil. After a theoretical chapter on antiracism and antiracist discourse, the author studies Jesuit texts of the 17th and 18th century criticizing the abuses against slaves and the texts of black and white writers in the 19th century advocating abolition. The author analyzes discourses of 20th century scholars, journalists, and activists who explicitly combat prevalent international eugenicist and racist ideologies as well as post-abolition discrimination of black people all while challenging the dominant myth of Brazil as a ‘racial democracy.’ After the historical study of these antiracist discourses, this book offers a detailed case study of contemporary debates on affirmative action in Brazilian parliament.
