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Research itineraries: contribution to the knowledge of African migrations and afro-descendants in Argentina [PDF]

, 2023
In this chapter, we propose to present the paths walked as aresearch team since 1990, when we formed a heterogeneous anddiverse group in terms of age, gender, personality and academictraining, today called the Research Group on African Migrationsand Afro‐
Herrera, Nicolás, Ottenheimer, Ana Cristina, Canal, Rocío de la, Espiro, María Luz, Maffia, Marta Mercedes, Munck, Ronaldo, Zubrzycki, Bernarda, De Carmo, Maria, Monkevicius, Paola Carolina, Voscoboinik, Sonia, Dankova, Petra, Kleibl, Tanja   +11 more
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Haunting the Historiography of Slaves in South Asia from the nineteenth century to the present

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using both English and Urdu‐language records, this article traces the career of a few African and Afro‐Asian women slaves in the household‐state of Awadh during the first half of the nineteenth century. Focusing on the same records, this article compares a master‐poet's recognition of the motherhood of the African and Afro‐Asian slaves to the ...
Indrani Chatterjee
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Seroprevalence of rodent-borne viruses in Afro-descendent communities in Brazil [PDF]

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de São Paulo, 2019
During the Brazilian slavery period, many African migrants were brought to the American continent. Historically, some of these migrants escaped from the Brazilian gold mines and farms to which they had been brought and settled in remote valleys and this was the main mode of resistance to the slavery system.
Jorlan Fernandes, Thayssa Alves Coelho, Renata Carvalho de Oliveira, Livia Stefânia Alves Lima Guedes, Bernardo Rodrigues Teixeira, Alexandro Guterres, Christian Niel, Silvana C. Levis, Barbara Vieira Lago, Ana Rita Coimbra Motta-Castro, Elba Regina Sampaio de Lemos   +10 more
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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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Visibility and Memories-Building Processes among Afro-Descendants. El Afroargentino Case [PDF]

, 2017
This article focuses on the relationship between the new forms of expression of Afro-descendent memory in Argentina and the current processes of visibilization and political demand, analyzing the particularities that have a written support of subaltern ...
Paola Carolina Monkevicius, Monkevicius, Paola Carolina   +1 more
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African-American Women in Reconstruction in the Shenandoah Valley

Nuevo mundo - Mundos Nuevos, 2014
American History textbooks and public history sites of the eastern United States are replete with fact and fiction about the American Civil War (1861-1865). The Shenandoah Valley region of Virginia, in the northwestern part of the state, for example, saw
Ann Denkler
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HLA-E polymorphisms in an Afro-descendant Southern Brazilian population [PDF]

Human Immunology, 2013
HLA-E is a non-classical I (Ib) gene which has limited polymorphism and low levels of tissue expression. Currently, 11 alleles are described in the literature with only three protein products. In the present study we investigated HLA-E gene variations at exons 2 and 3 and calculated allele, genotype and haplotype frequencies in a sample of 152 ...
Luana, Carvalho dos Santos, Luciane Viater, Tureck, Pryscilla Fanini, Wowk, Sibelle Botogosque, Mattar, Georgia Fernanda, Gelmini, João Carlos Marques, Magalhães, Maria da Graça, Bicalho, Valéria Maria Munhoz Sperandio, Roxo   +7 more
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The Edification of Manuela Xiqués: Slavery, Finance, Biography, and the Construction of Modern Barcelona

Gender &History, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT An analysis of the dual biographies, economic and domestic, of Manuela Xiqués, an enslaver from nineteenth‐century Cuba and Spain, deepens our understanding of the role of European and Creole women in the nineteenth‐century Atlantic. This essay foregrounds the role of literature, namely family biography, as a locus of the processes of ...
Lisa Surwillo, Martín Rodrigo Alharilla
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FROM COMMON POOL RESOURCES TO COMMON ASSETS: THE SELF-MANAGEMENT OF AFRO-DESCENDANT TERRITORIES IN THE AMAZON

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The paper adopts the Common Pool Resource and Common Property Regime Theories to analyze how two Afro-descendant communities in Brazilian Amazon have built different structures of power-sharing, as evidenced by their self-governance, self-organization ...
Mário Vasconcellos Sobrinho, Ynis Cristine de Santana Martins Lino Ferreira, Ana Maria de Albuquerque Vasconcellos   +2 more
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Prevalence of common hemoglobin variants in an afro-descendent Ecuadorian population [PDF]

BMC Research Notes, 2013
Abstract Background Hemoglobinopathies are among the most studied and frequent pathologies. These genetic disorders are considered a very important health care threat in many tropical countries. Ecuador is a tropical Latin-American country with an important presence of afro-descendants (7.2%).
Yamila Domínguez, Camilo Zurita, Diego A. Calvopina, Jacqueline Villacís, Marcelo Mora   +4 more
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