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 travels to the land of the Aborigines of Australia and the townships of South Africa, ending in the Brazilian Amazon region. With the same passion, … Continue reading VIDEO/FILM: Viramundo (with Gilberto Gil)
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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 book, Domingos Álvares, African Healing, and the Intellectual History of the Atlantic World (University of North Carolina Press). The Douglass Prize was jointly created by … Continue reading Congratulations to James H. Sweet, Winner of the 2012 Douglass Prize
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 the South Atlantic, past and present.From 1550 to 1850 most of Brazil and Angola formed a system sustained by the slave trade and intercolonial traffic … Continue reading CFP: The South Atlantic, Past and Present
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): "In People of Faith, Mariza de Carvalho Soares reconstructs the everyday lives of Mina slaves transported in the eighteenth century to Rio de Janeiro from … Continue reading BOOK: Soares on Slavery, Catholicism, and Urban Life in Eighteenth-Century Rio
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: 9:00-10:45, September 7, 2012 (Friday) 1.6 Memory and Heritage of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic Region, I LOCAL: Levis Faculty Center 2nd floor … Continue reading CONF: Panels on Memory and Heritage of Slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic at BRASA 2012
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 The American Crucible, Robin Blackburn has provided one of the most commanding and wide-ranging examinations of Atlantic abolitionism in years. In an era of specialization, … Continue reading 2012 Frederick Douglass Book Prize Finalists Announced
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 people in Brazil challenged the idea of white supremacy, contributing to the building of a new Brazilian identity. In the 1950s, Freyre projected the idea … Continue reading ARTICLE: Bethencourt on Creolization and Kongo Agency
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 professor emeritus from the University of Toronto, where he taught African history. For most of the last forty years he has been doing research on … Continue reading NEWS: Two 2011-2012 IGK Fellows Working on Slavery
BOOK: Araujo on the Public Memory of Slavery
Ana Lucia Araujo, Public Memory of Slavery: Victims and Perpetrators in the South Atlantic. Amherst, N.Y: Cambria Press, 2010. via Cambria Press: 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 the role of … Continue reading BOOK: Araujo on the Public Memory of Slavery
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 expansion of the field of Brazilian studies in the Anglophone world. Brazilian scholars as well as their European and North American counterparts have re-evaluated the … Continue reading Review: Divanna on Identity in Brazil
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