VIDEO/FILM: Viramundo (with Gilberto Gil)
via official website: After decades of sold out shows and international recognition, musician Gilberto Gil embarks on a new kind of world tour through the southern hemisphere. From Bahia, he […]
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Congratulations to James H. Sweet, Winner of the 2012 Douglass Prize
From the Gilder Lerhman Center: James Sweet, Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin, has been selected as the winner of the 2012 Frederick Douglass Book Prize for his […]
CFP: The South Atlantic, Past and Present
Call for Papers: The South Atlantic, Past and Present Guest Editor: Luiz Felipe de Alencastro (Université Paris Sorbonne) This volume will focus on the historical, geopolitical and cultural aspects of […]
BOOK: Soares on Slavery, Catholicism, and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century Rio
Mariza de Carvalho Soares, People of Faith: Slavery and African Catholics in Eighteenth-Century Rio De Janeiro. Translated by Jerry D. Metz. Duke University Press Books, 2011. Description (Duke University Press): […]
CONF: Panels on Memory and Heritage of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic at BRASA 2012
Panels on Memory and Heritage of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic Region Conference of the Brazilian Studies Association (September 6-8, 2012, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) PANEL 1: […]
2012 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists Announced
The finalists for the 14th Annual Frederick Douglass Book Prize have been announced. From the announcement: Robin Blackburn for The American Crucible: Slavery, Emancipation and Human Rights (Verso Books) In […]
ARTICLE: Bethencourt on Creolization and Kongo Agency
Francisco Bethencourt. “Creolization of the Atlantic World: The Portuguese and the Kongolese.” Portuguese Studies 27, no. 1 (2011): 56–69. Abstract: From In the 1930s, Gilberto Freyre’s praise of mixed-race […]
NEWS: Two 2011-2012 IGK Fellows Working on Slavery
Two 2011-2012 Internationales Geisteswissenschaftliches Kolleg (IGK) Fellows at the Humboldt University of Berlin are developing projects related to slavery in Africa and the Americas. From the website: Martin Klein is […]
BOOK: Araujo on the Public Memory of Slavery
If recent scholarship has focused on the memory of slavery in the United States, few works have dealt with the public memory of slavery from a transnational perspective. When examining […]
Review: Divanna on Identity in Brazil
Divanna, Isabel. “Multi-Faceted Approaches to Identity in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Brazil.” The Historical Journal 53, no. 01 (2010): 225-235. First paragraph steal: “The past four decades have seen the rapid […]
