Marc Hertzman: 3 books
Políticas da raça
Experiências e legados da abolição e da pós-emancipação no Brasil
Language: Portuguese
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Esta coletânea, escrita por pesquisadores brasileiros e estrangeiros, aborda um longo período da história do nosso país: dos anos 1870, com o início do movimento abolicionista, a 2010, quando o STF julgou constitucionais as cotas raciais na Universidade de Brasília. Entre outros assuntos abordados...
Making Samba
A New History of Race and Music in Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2013
In November 1916, a young Afro-Brazilian musician named Donga registered sheet music for the song "Pelo telefone" ("On the Telephone") at the National Library in Rio de Janeiro. This apparently simple act—claiming ownership of a musical composition—set in motion a series of...
Lima Barreto
New Critical Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
This edited volume is a collection of twelve interdisciplinary essays from various Brazilian literary scholars, historians, and anthropologists analyzing the work of 19th- and 20th-century Afro-Brazilian writer Afonso Henriques de Lima Barreto. This is the first collection to present a cohesive analysis...