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Title:

African heritage and memories of slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic world / edited by Ana Lucia Araujo.

Publisher:

Cambria Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xi, 406 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Slavery--Brazil--History.
Blacks--Brazil--History.
Blacks--Brazil--Social conditions.

Other Authors:

Araujo, Ana Lucia, editor. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2009105686

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: wounded pasts: memory of slavery and African heritage in Brazil / Ana Lucia Araujo -- Collectionism and colonialism: the Africana collection at Brazil's National Museum (Rio de Janeiro) / Mariza de Carvalho Soares -- Race and visual representation: Louis Agassiz and Hermann Burmeister / Maria Helena Machado -- Counter-witnessing the visual culture of Brazilian slavery / Matthew Francis Rarey -- Angola in Brazil: the formation of Angoleiro identity in Bahia / Matthias Röhrig Assunção -- Memories of captivity and freedom in São José da Serra jongo festivals: cultural heritage and Black identity (1888-2011) / Martha Abreu and Hebe Mattos -- From public amnesia to public memory: re-discovering slavery heritage in Rio de Janeiro / André Cicalo -- Uncomfortable pasts: talking about slavery in Angola / Marcia C. Schenck and Mariana P. Candido -- "Bahia is a closer Africa": Brazilian slavery and heritage in African American roots tourism / Patricia de Santana Pinho -- Preserving African art, history, and memory: the Afrobrazil Museum / Kimberly Cleveland -- The legacy of slavery in contemporary Brazil / Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos.

Series:

Cambria studies in slavery series

ISBN:

1604978929
9781604978926

OCLC:

(OCoLC)899948145

LCCN:

2014043719

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)