The Faculty Notebook, February 2008
, 2008 The Faculty Notebook is published periodically by the Office of the Provost at Gettysburg College to bring to the attention of the campus community accomplishments and activities of academic interest.
Provost\u27s Office,
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Curls, Kinks and Colonization: The Decolonization of Afrodescendant Women’s Bodies in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic [PDF]
, 2018 This paper documents the experiences of Afrodescendant women in the Dominican Republic who choose to wear their hair naturally curly, despite the norm to straighten it.
Wyatt, Allegra
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Searching for Afrocentric spirituality within the transpersonal [PDF]
, 2014 The aim of this paper is to show, via the lens of a culturally specific dream, how the transpersonal could benefit from broadening its approach to spirituality to include the wisdom of African spiritual beliefs.
Callaghan, Jane +2 more
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Presence of the afro-brazilian literature in graduate studies
, 2009 This paper studies the presence of afro-brazilian literature in graduate programs in literary studies. Starting on the observation of ten different graduate programs with a tradition on the research of afro-brazilian literature, it was possible to verify that the number of theses and dissertations about this object is still low in face of the number of
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Afro-Brazilian literature: memory and identity in the tale «Olhos d´água» by Conceição Evaristo [PDF]
Romanica Olomucensia, 2021 openaire +1 more source
Brazilian and Cape Verdian literatures for Afro-Brazilian learning
, 2017 Este artigo se propõe a examinar o diálogo entre as produções literárias do Brasil e de Cabo Verde sob o ponto de vista do protagonismo e da representatividade da oralidade (crioulo/português brasileiro), nas perspectivas colonial e pós-colonial e de suas especificidades culturais e étnicas.---DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.21881/abriluff ...
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Is Brazil really a catholic country? What opinions about abortion, sex between individuals who are not married to each other, and homosexuality say about the meaning of catholicism in three Brazilian cities [PDF]
The idea of being a Catholic country is quite widespread throughout the nation. What does it mean to be Catholic in Brazil? Do Catholics follow the Catholic Doctrine?
Christopher G. Ellison +3 more
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Brazil’s Deferred Highway: Mobility, Development, and Anticipating the State in Amazonia [PDF]
, 2012 Four decades ago, Brazilian officials plotted designs for colonization and resource extraction in Amazonia; subsequently the region has become a test-lab for successive development regimes. Along the Santarém-Cuiabá Highway (Br-163) in the state of Pará,
Campbell, Jeremy M.
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Inequality of Opportunity in Brazil [PDF]
This paper proposes a method to decompose earnings inequality into a component due to unequal opportunities and a residual term. Drawing on the distinction between ‘circumstance’ and ‘effort’ variables in John Roemer’s work on equality of opportunity, we
Francisco H.B. Ferreira +2 more
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Reasserting Humanity Through the Liberatory Gaze [PDF]
, 2012 The act of critically looking can be a method used to consider alternative ways of conceptualizing marginalized cultures and ethnicities. By engaging in a series of inquiries about the subject of an image, the spectator can form a more comprehensive ...
Crum, Melissa
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