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‘Yes, I am black, as God created me’: reflections on the Black Catholic Movement in Brazil [PDF]

Vibrant: Virtual Brazilian Anthropology
This article examines how the Catholic Church in Brazil has incorporated elements of black activism, promoted actions to combat racism, and adopted symbols of African heritage in its liturgies.
Rosenilton da Silva Oliveira
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A Very Social History: South American Cricketing Tourists in Britain in 1932

History, EarlyView.
Abstract Drawing on both the rich Anglophone cricket historiography and the new Latin American sports scholarship, this article maps out the entangled global networks that shaped the tour of Britain made in 1932 by a team of South American cricketers.
Matthew Brown
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From Accra to Tokyo: African Sportswomen's Excellence and Respectability in Twentieth‐Century Global Sports

History, EarlyView.
Abstract This article analyses the racialized and gendered constraints faced by African sportswomen in international sporting competitions, from the interwar period to the 1980s, with a focus on the policing and expectations framing young international athletes’ acceptable behaviour.
Claire Nicolas
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Transas e transes: sexo e gênero nos cultos afro-brasileiros, um sobrevôo "Transas" and trances: sex and gender in afro-brazilian cults, an overview

Revista Estudos Feministas, 2005
Através de um percurso na literatura sobre cultos afro-brasileiros, este artigo procura problematizar as formas pelas quais questões de gênero são tratadas em alguns trabalhos antropológicos recentes.
Patricia Birman
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Afro-Brazilian literature: theoretical-critical questions

, 2020
Este trabalho tem como objetivo discutir as implicações teórico- -críticas acerca da literatura produzida pelos afrodescendentes no Brasil. São apresentadas diversas visões sobre o que seria a produção literária de autoria negra ou afro-brasileira. Destacamse principalmente as abordagens de Bernd (1988), Cuti (2010) e Duarte (2008; 2014).
Santos, Zidelmar Alves, Rodrigues, Inara de Oliveira   +1 more
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EPISTEMIC EXTRACTIVISM IN ENGAGED URBAN AND HOUSING RESEARCH: Implications and Counter‐measures

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract What is ‘epistemic extractivism’, and how does it affect researchers who are engaged in urban and housing movements? This essay first explores the contexts of both engaged research and epistemic extractivism, clarifying their meanings and implications. It also disentangles the ethical and methodological risks posed by epistemic extractivism in
Miguel A. Martínez
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A importância da literatura infantil afro-brasileira e africana no ensino fundamental do SESC - Petrolina/PE

Diálogo das Letras, 2013
This article aims to analyze the use and the repercussions that occurred with the children's literature Afro-Brazilian and African elementary education of SESC-Petrolina. It was used as the theoretical authors and documents as Brazil (2003), Coelho (2002)
Aurilia de Brito Lima, Fabiana Cristina da Silva   +1 more
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African and Afro-Brazilian Literature in the Construction of Children’s Identity in Preschool

, 2022
The objective of this article is to discuss in an interdisciplinary way - establishing a dialogue, mainly between education and sociology - the issue of storytelling and the contribution of African and Afro-Brazilian literature in the formation of the identity of black children in preschool.
Ribeiro, Simone, Fortuna, Danielle, Lima, Jacqueline   +2 more
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Political Animals: To Live & Die in More‐Than‐Human Worlds

American Anthropologist, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT What does it mean to live—and therefore die—in a more‐than‐human world? This review essay explores that question through reflections on teaching Political Animals: Species, Class, Race, and Gender, an undergraduate course that introduces students to scholarship on human‐nonhuman relations.
Luísa Reis‐Castro
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Treading Other Paths within Afro-Diasporic Contexts: Unilab Students’ Experiences, Challenges, and Perspectives

Humanities, 2019
In this paper, I discuss some of the processes that characterized the creation and consolidation of the University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (Unilab) in Bahia, as part of the expansion project of public higher education in ...
Cristiane Santos Souza
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