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Sheepskin Effects in the Returns to Education by Ethnic Group: Evidence from Northeastern Brazil [PDF]

The purpose of this paper is to examine inter-ethnic differences in the returns to education for the three main ethnic groups in the Metropolitan Region of Salvador (MRS), Bahia state, in Northeastern Brazil.
Béatrice d'Hombres, Jean-Louis Arcand
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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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Yoruba Histories of Marriage and Belonging: Gender, Power and Innovation in Eighteenth‐Century West Africa

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This article argues that marriage was central to historical change in the Yoruba‐speaking region of West Africa during the eighteenth century. It draws on ìtàn, a distinct oral source, to show that conjugality shaped Yoruba processes of urbanisation and political centralisation, gendered divisions of labour and social innovation and creativity.
Insa Nolte
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Inter-group entrainment in Afro-Brazilian Congado ritual

Empirical Musicology Review, 2011
This paper investigates the phenomenon of entrainment between independent groups of musicians in the context of Afro-Brazilian Congado performance. Based on audiovisual recordings made during a festival in May 2006, we present analyses of four different ...
Glaura Lucas, Martin Clayton, Laura Leante   +2 more
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FINANCIALIZED VIOLENCE IN TORONTO’S RENTAL MARKET: Eviction Rates in Majority Black Renter Communities

International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, EarlyView.
Abstract While the geographical distribution of eviction filings has been explored in Toronto, the intersection of rental housing financialization, race and eviction remains underexplored. Financial actors and their intermediaries, who fuel the eviction crisis in economically disenfranchised Black renter communities, exert significant influence over ...
Nemoy Lewis, Dimitri Panou, Richard Maaranen   +2 more
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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 Children's Literature: Overview and Discussion

Porto das Letras, 2020
This article presents a brief overview and discussion of Afro-Brazilian literature for children and adolescents, starting with the enactment of Law 10.639 of 2003, which makes the teaching of African and Afro-Brazilian History and Culture mandatory in Primary Education. public and private schools.
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To Be Brown in Brazil: Education and Segregation Latin American Style Colloquium - Relearning Brown: Applying the Lessons of Brown to the Challenges of the Twenty-First Century [PDF]

, 2004
As a scholar who studies civil rights movements from a comparative perspective, the commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education1 decision causes me to query the power of Brown as a symbol of equality outside of the United
Hernandez, Tanya K.
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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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The Hour that Never Comes and the Time that Remains

Journal of Analytical Psychology, EarlyView.
Abstract This essay proposes a symbolic and clinical investigation of psychic temporality through two archetypal experiences of time: the hour that never comes and the time that remains. Drawing on analytical psychology, trauma theory and aesthetic philosophy, text explores how certain forms of suffering resist chronological resolution and persist as ...
Daniel Françoli Yago
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