tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5649417247167993782024-02-20T23:59:57.679-03:00Manuel Raimundo Querino (1851-1923)This blog is dedicated to the life, works and causes of Manuel Querino, a Brazilian art historian, folklorist, ethnographer, African vindicationist, abolitionist, crusading journalist, politician, educator and labour leader, and one of Brazil's first black vindicationistsSabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.comBlogger221125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-32145890590935193122023-02-14T10:34:00.028-03:002023-02-20T12:15:50.550-03:00Marking the centenary of Querino's deathThe day before the anniversary of Manuel Querino's death, Bérose, the International Encyclopaedia of the Histories of Anthropology, published an <a href="https://www.berose.fr/article2797.html?lang=fr" target="_blank">article on Querino's pioneering work as an ethnologist</a> by Sabrina Gledhill. <p>In Bahia, a special mass was held in his memory on 14th February. Sung at the church of Nossa Senhora do Rosário dos Homens Pretos, where he was buried in the sacristy, the ceremony was organized by Jaime Nascimento. <p>
Manuel Querino, who was, among many other things, the director of an African-inspired Carnival group, Pándegos d'África, died of malaria on Ash Wednesday, 1923. Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-23941576762051444412020-10-21T11:53:00.002-03:002020-10-21T11:53:31.017-03:00Launching the print edition of Travessias no Atlântico Negro online<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf_wzo-HLwOIF0z0sMtomrp_4Q1voAH8She3kwSAxwZQsV_ZvRgyQIaDvxNpAG6lSzCdViauhNSt1eRiANnrwmdD6igUeyMIJC_XZPYL8tNp-sd72y5y5AjKrSySlo0eRaYbdZ1jLDN4nO/s1084/Card+Lan%25C3%25A7amento+IGHB+28.10.20.jpeg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1084" data-original-width="1084" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjf_wzo-HLwOIF0z0sMtomrp_4Q1voAH8She3kwSAxwZQsV_ZvRgyQIaDvxNpAG6lSzCdViauhNSt1eRiANnrwmdD6igUeyMIJC_XZPYL8tNp-sd72y5y5AjKrSySlo0eRaYbdZ1jLDN4nO/s320/Card+Lan%25C3%25A7amento+IGHB+28.10.20.jpeg" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-31088015798275848282018-04-20T11:03:00.000-03:002018-06-17T11:01:50.176-03:00New e-book in Portuguese<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Based on my PhD thesis, this book is a reflection on the lives and posthumous reputations of two Black intellectuals - Booker T. Washington and Manuel R. Querino. In it, I seek to find connections between their experiences of and responses to racism and "bridge the Black Atlantic" by showing how Manuel Querino may have come to know of and admire Washington - the only African American he mentions in his works. Now available in Portuguese on <a href="http://amzn.eu/4XcXpCS">Amazon </a>(Kindle) and <a href="https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/819418">Smashwords </a>(Kobo) as well as the website of <a href="https://www.livrariacultura.com.br/p/ebooks/biografias/historia/travessias-no-atlantico-negro-reflexoes-sobre-2010461513">Livraria Cultura </a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-47991485991144686512014-03-04T15:39:00.002-03:002014-03-04T15:39:46.632-03:00Dissertation defense <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<br />Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-63138828588002519652011-07-19T15:02:00.000-03:002011-07-19T15:02:10.193-03:00Everyday thoughts of an Olorisha in London<a href="http://oshunibuanya.blog.com/">Everyday thoughts of an Olorisha in London</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-89838239963153284562011-05-05T19:27:00.002-03:002011-05-05T19:31:44.557-03:00Full Episode: Brazil, a Racial Paradise?Professor Henry Louis Gates focuses on Manuel Querino as of minute 28 of this episode, comparing him to WEB Du Bois and Carter G. Woodson, "the fathers of African-American history".<br />
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<a href="http://www.pbs.org/wnet/black-in-latin-america/featured/black-in-latin-america-full-episode-brazil-a-racial-paradise/224/">http://www.pbs.org/wnet/black-in-latin-america/featured/black-in-latin-america-full-episode-brazil-a-racial-paradise/224/</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-31162091778661816052011-04-15T22:30:00.004-03:002011-04-15T22:30:55.640-03:00Timeline - Black in Brazil<object width="100%" height="400"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="flashvars" value="clickToStart=true"/><param name="movie" value="http://www.vuvox.com/collage_express/collage.swf?collageID=0376b1b45c"/><embed src="http://www.vuvox.com/collage_express/collage.swf?collageID=0376b1b45c" flashvars="clickToStart=true" allowFullScreen="true" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100%" height="400"></embed></object>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-16194019262090492072011-04-15T22:30:00.002-03:002011-04-15T22:30:24.887-03:00Haiti & the Dominican Republic: An Island Divided<object width = "512" height = "328" > <param name = "movie" value = "http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf" ></param><param name="flashvars" value="video=1877436791&player=viral&chapter=1" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param ><param name = "allowscriptaccess" value = "always" ></param><param name="wmode" value="transparent"></param ><embed src="http://www-tc.pbs.org/video/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf" flashvars="video=1877436791&player=viral&chapter=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" wmode="transparent" allowfullscreen="true" width="512" height="328" bgcolor="#000000"></embed></object><p style="font-size:11px; font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: #808080; margin-top: 5px; background: transparent; text-align: center; width: 512px;">Watch the <a style="text-decoration:none !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#4eb2fe !important;" href="http://video.pbs.org/video/1877436791" target="_blank">full episode</a>. See more <a style="text-decoration:none !important; font-weight:normal !important; height: 13px; color:#4eb2fe !important;" href="http://video.pbs.org/program/1803657667" target="_blank">Black in Latin America.</a></p>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-58426866943585057792011-02-02T14:20:00.000-03:002011-02-02T14:20:00.042-03:00The cost of racism « Resist racism<p><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-6507" title="mcnair" src="http://resistracism.files.wordpress.com/2011/01/mcnair.jpg?w=165&h=205" alt="" height="205" width="165" /></p> <p>Before Dr. Ronald E. McNair was an astronaut, he was a little boy who lived in Lake City, South Carolina. And the Lake City library did not allow African Americans to borrow books. Nine-year-old McNair refused to leave the library and the police were called.</p> <p>Now <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/ronald-mcnair-challenger-explosion-victim-honored-hometown/story?id=12794042&page=1" target="_blank">the library is being renamed after him</a>.</p> <p>McNair was the second African American astronaut in space. He held a Ph.D. in physics from MIT and was a specialist in laser physics. What a loss it would have been if he had never been allowed to borrow those books.</p><br /><a href="http://resistracism.wordpress.com/2011/01/31/the-cost-of-racism-3/">The cost of racism « Resist racism</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-65243430542591799802011-01-01T17:23:00.000-03:002011-01-01T17:23:26.355-03:00Black in Latin America Conference | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute<div>“Black in Latin America” is a multinational conference that will take place at Harvard University on January 27-29, 2011. Inspired by Professor Henry Louis Gates’s upcoming documentary of the same name, to air on PBS on April 19, the “Black in Latin America” conference will gather together scholars from Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Perú, Brazil, Mexico, and the U.S. to discuss a variety of issues related to race relations of Afro-descendants in the Caribbean and Latin America. Six panels over two days, each featuring scholars from or at work in a particular country who were interviewed in the documentary, and two roundtable discussions featuring top U.S. scholars, will comprise this event. In addition, the authors Maryse Condé, Edwidge Danticat, and Jamaica Kincaid will be on hand to do readings and participate in discussions with the panelists and roundtable members.</div> <p><strong>Location</strong>:<em> CGIS South, Tsai Auditorium, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 <a href="http://map.harvard.edu/?ctrx=760699.5&ctry=2961924&level=9&layers=Campus%20Base%20and%20Buildings,Parking,Map%20Text,Museums%20and%20Galleries">(map) </a></em></p> <div>Free and open to the public.</div> <div>No registration required by general public.</div><br /><a href="http://dubois.fas.harvard.edu/black-latin-america-conference">Black in Latin America Conference | W.E.B. Du Bois Institute</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-23636804319108552852010-12-12T12:45:00.000-03:002010-12-12T12:45:37.536-03:00What Progressives Don’t Understand About Obama - NYTimes.com<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/12/opinion/12reed.html?hp">What Progressives Don’t Understand About Obama - NYTimes.com</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-17029169158990876892010-12-11T10:05:00.000-03:002010-12-11T10:05:26.164-03:00Visualizing Slavery - NYTimes.com<a href="http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/09/visualizing-slavery/?src=me&ref=general">Visualizing Slavery - NYTimes.com</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-45292953037630979782010-12-09T17:53:00.002-03:002010-12-09T17:53:51.502-03:00The New Jim Crow<div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> We’ve all heard the statistics, and most of us have simply become numb to hearing them. For many people, the over-incarceration of Black people is simply a fact of life. <strong>It shouldn’t be</strong>. </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> Thanks to legal scholar and professor Michelle Alexander<sup>1</sup> we now have a new book that explains how we ended up with a criminal justice system that targets and endangers Black communities, as well as ideas on what we can do to free ourselves from that system’s clutches. </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> When we put the book — <i>The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness </i>— in the hands of 20 ColorOfChange members to review, the response was unanimous. In addition to giving the book glowing reviews, they all wanted the entire ColorOfChange community to know about it. </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> <strong>It’s why we’re now inviting you to get your own copy (and for your friends or family as well, in time for the holiday season), as well as participate in a conference call with Professor Alexander in the new year to discuss it.</strong> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> You can get your copy here: </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/602?akid=1770.1008708.eXzfGd&t=3" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/284?id=2473-605038&akid=<wbr></wbr>1770.1008708.eXzfGd&t=4</a></div><div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> Professor Alexander’s book outlines the evolution of drug laws and how their ongoing effects on Black America parallel the role that segregation played in the period following the Civil War and preceding the Civil Rights Movement.<sup>2</sup> And it raises questions about what it will take to build a movement that can reform the broken drug laws that fuel high incarceration rates. </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> Criminal justice reform is key to our community — <strong>a third of Black men will spend part of their lives in prison,<sup>3</sup> and Black children are more than six times more likely to have a parent incarcerated than White children.<sup>4</sup></strong> ColorOfChange members have demonstrated time and again that they want to change the status quo. More than 59,000 ColorOfChange members called on Congress to remove the sentencing disparity between crack and powder cocaine, and nearly 25,000 sent a statement to Senator James Webb of Virginia, thanking him for his attempts to overhaul our approach to incarceration. </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> We believe — and the ColorOfChange members who read and reviewed the book agreed — that the book will help us, as everyday people, stand with even more power to advocate for change. <strong>Ms. Alexander is herself a longtime member of ColorOfChange.org, and she’s agreed to speak with those of you who read the book, and answer any questions you have.</strong> We’ll contact you again early in the new year with more information about how to participate in that conference call, which is sure to be informative and powerful. </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> Here’s what ColorOfChange.org members are saying about <i>The New Jim Crow</i>: </div><blockquote> <div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> <i>“This book explains how this new Jim Crow came to be and how deeply ingrained it is now in the American psyche. Unless we really understand how this happened, we’ll never break this vicious cycle of African-American overincarceration… How many family members of prisoners lie about their relatives in the penal system in an effort to mitigate the stigma of criminality? This system penalizes entire families. [The book] was such an eye opener."</i><br />
— Irma, Washington, DC </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> <i>“This book will give you a good understanding of the system, its historical roots, its origins in the War on Drugs, the complicity of the police and legal system leading to mass incarceration of people of color, and the tragic result of creating a permanent caste system based on color. It opened my eyes and stirred my soul.“</i><br />
— Larry, Freeland, WA </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> <i>“This isn’t a fight for the lawyers. This is a fight for regular people, the non-experts, the advocates, the sympathizers, the human beings who care and want to care more. Fertile ground for change is wherever we are, however we are, and accessible to those of us with less than sizable monetary wealth or a law degree.”</i><br />
— Thuha, Fountain Valley, CA </div></blockquote><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> For more on <i>The New Jim Crow</i> and to get your copy, click here: </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/602?akid=1770.1008708.eXzfGd&t=5" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/284?id=2473-605038&akid=<wbr></wbr>1770.1008708.eXzfGd&t=6</a></div><div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> Thanks and Peace,</div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> -- James, Gabriel, William, Dani, Natasha and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team<br />
December 9th, 2010</div><div style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong>Help support our work.</strong> ColorOfChange.org is powered by YOU -- your energy and dollars. We take no money from lobbyists or large corporations that don't share our values, and our tiny staff ensures your contributions go a long way. You can contribute here:</div><div style="margin: 1em 0px;"> <a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/5?akid=1770.1008708.eXzfGd&t=7" target="_blank">https://secure.colorofchange.<wbr></wbr>org/contribute/ </a></div><div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> References: </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 1. “The New Jim Crow,” article by Michelle Alexander in Mother Jones, 03-08-2010 <br />
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/279?akid=1770.1008708.eXzfGd&t=8" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/279?akid=1770.1008708.<wbr></wbr>eXzfGd&t=9</a></div><div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 2. “Legal Scholar Michelle Alexander on ‘The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness’,” Democracy Now, 03-11-2010<br />
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/283?akid=1770.1008708.eXzfGd&t=10" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/283?akid=1770.1008708.<wbr></wbr>eXzfGd&t=11</a></div><div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 3. “Too Long Ignored,” The New York Times, 8-20-2010<br />
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/598?akid=1770.1008708.eXzfGd&t=12" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/598?akid=1770.1008708.<wbr></wbr>eXzfGd&t=13</a></div><div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 4. “Collateral Costs: Incarceration’s Effect on Economic Mobility,” Pew Charitable Trusts, 9-2010<br />
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/603?akid=1770.1008708.eXzfGd&t=14" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/603?akid=1770.1008708.<wbr></wbr>eXzfGd&t=15</a></div><div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> Additional resources: </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> “More than 1 in 100 U.S. adults are in prison,” New York Times, 2-29-2008<br />
<a href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/281?akid=1770.1008708.eXzfGd&t=16" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/281?akid=1770.1008708.<wbr></wbr>eXzfGd&t=17</a></div><div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-32777129760402071962010-11-26T10:50:00.002-03:002010-11-26T10:50:26.004-03:00Black Consciousness in BrazilTue, 11/16/2010 - 13:51 — Italo Ramos<br />
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New census data show two million more Brazilians now describe themselves as black than did so ten years ago, when “they had said that they were not blacks, but 'mestiços' or 'mulattos,' a category more favored, socially.” This is, the author believes, a significant number, proof of the deep impact of the black consciousness movement and Brazil's relatively recent affirmative action programs. At the same time, “slowly but consistently, white people are admitting the real face of a segregationist and racist Brazil.”<br />
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Early last October, the work of the last Brazilian census had not yet been finished, but we already knew that our adult black population had grown two percentage points, from 5% to 7%, over the last ten years. (In Brazil, black people are officially considered a category apart from the racially mixed population.) For those who know Brazil and know that the country has the largest black population in the world, after only Nigeria, these numbers may seem surprisingly small. And these people may also ask how could this have happened? The new persons who were born in this so short period of time - 10 years - are not adult enough to be included by the census collector. So, where did those two percentage points came from?<br />
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Before answering, let’s explore another fundamental question: 7% is a small, insignificant number?<br />
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The answer may be Yes and No, as it depends on whom is reading it. Numbers are not geographic symbols but, as they don’t lie, they are the most powerful kind of authority we have to prove something, although our sense about their meaning may vary according to different national criteria. If you are Brazilian, 7% is very small, considering a population of 190 million people. But for those people in the world who deal with racial discrimination and racism, it will never be insignificant.<br />
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The census, made by the Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística-IBGE, doesn’t explain, as it is not its official business to make considerations about the development of racial awareness, but that difference of 2 points shows that, now, two million more people are accepting and proclaiming their real color. Ten years ago, when another census took place, they had said that they were not blacks, but “mestiços” or “mulattos,” a category more favored, socially. That difference is good proof that racial consciousness is growing in Brazil, which means that more and more black people are not ashamed of their racial identity, and, not statistically but ethnically speaking, two percentage points is a big and significant number.<br />
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But there is more about that.<br />
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These 7% might be added to 45% of those who said to the collector that they are mulattos, and the result will be a population of 52% of blacks and mulattos, and 49% of whites. So, in an American sense, the Brazilian black population is now larger than the white one. In the Brazilian sense, as was said, blacks and biracial are two different categories.<br />
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Another number that Census shows, 2%, refers to people who, 10 years ago, said to the collector that they were white, but, now, they want to change their category, some choosing to be mestiços, some mulattos, some indigenous. These are very light-skinned black persons who used to pass as white, but now are not ashamed to declare their real origin. They don’t want to be white, anymore.<br />
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(A good question would be “Why would a light-skinned person want to pass as white?” Well, I don’t want to answer, because my words wouldn’t be sympathetic to them.)<br />
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So, the Brazilian black population not only is the second largest in the world, but also exhibits the record of being the most mixed. In this sense, it reserves first place. Mulattos, in Brazil, are, mainly, a product of the Portuguese, who colonized the country, and the Africans, brought there to be slaves. And this mixture was always so dense that, in slavery times, there were more mulattos than today, proportionally to the total population. But the readers must not take this last information as a sign of racial liberalism from the Portuguese side, because it actually hides violence, a crime.<br />
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Speaking about crime, in this aspect, Brazilian and American slavery histories are similar. Both are full of cases of rape. At that time, it was common among landlords to take enslaved women as concubines. In Brazil, this practice was more open than in U.S., but, to take the best of American examples, we can ask: Did Sally Hemings love Thomas Jefferson? Those seven children were sons of sexual consent? If Sally really loved him, would she impose some conditions to return from France to Virginia with him, as she did? Jefferson agreed with those conditions and set her (their) children free, just like Brazilian landlords used to protect their bastard sons, giving them much better treatment. This was a natural behavior, so common that until today both societies make a difference between blacks and mulattos, giving to the latter a higher social status. What contemporary Brazilian and American whites don’t realize is that, by doing so, they are simply<br />
modernly repeating what their ancestors, owners of slaves, used to do.<br />
<br />
In Brazil, in the time of slavery, the mulattos were chosen to be what was called Capitães do mato (bush captains), the leading hunters of fugitives slaves in the forests and responsible for chasing those ones walking in the streets in the cities. That was a job that gave some privileges to them, as they were not in the fields nor in the big houses, but seen as the protector of the interests of white owners of slaves. But the position also gave them the very bad reputation of being enemies of black people.<br />
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The social order is self-reproductive. If nothing is done to change it, in terms of a revolt, the imposition of a law or the exposure of positive role models, the social order repeats the same pattern of the society, eternally, just like it is. So, as changes don’t happen overnight, the culture of slavery perpetuated many old customs, making that institution not as remote as we would like. And, today, the capitães do mato have disappeared, as they are not necessary, anymore, because of the end of slavery, but, more than one century later, in their places, a big majority of soldiers of the Brazilian military state police, is comprised of mulattos. These are the police in charge of invading huts in favelas and of chasing poor people in the streets, mainly blacks, asking them for identification cards and arresting those who cannot prove that they have a regular job. Black people hate them. It is history, if not just repeating itself, making a kind of<br />
parody.<br />
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Until today, there is not an explanation for that change of attitude made by the “new blacks.” Can it be an effect of the Affirmative Action? Maybe. Affirmative Action came to Brazil around 2003, when a university in Rio de Janeiro adopted the first Brazilian system of quotas for students originating from public schools, blacks and indigenous people. Since then, the discussion about race, discrimination and racism provoked remarkable changes in the false image of a racial democracy Brazil has maintained since the abolition of slavery. Slowly but consistently, white people are admitting the real face of a segregationist and racist Brazil. But the quota system is also a university success. The last research made by the Universidade Federal da Bahia states: “…the quota students’ performance improves every year. The poorer the students, the better their progress.”<br />
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Brazil is a young country, with a juvenile enthusiasm in many senses, without answers or even research, yet, about its most important questions, like those about “new blacks.” Few people care about who makes Brazil what it is, and for whom. Of course, we are not so innocent as to not know that Brazil is evolving within a permanent conflict of huge cultural, political and economic interests that we have already identified and we are learning how to deal with its resistances, changes and tricks, like the disguised face of the modern capitaes do mato. Slowly but consistently, we are pushing ahead and improving an Affirmative Action that came late. And, for a developing country, it is comforting to know that some difficult questions, so important for tracing a right and quick road to a really democratic future, are not being answered even in developed countries.<br />
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Italo Ramos is a Brazilian journalist. He can be contacted at <br />
<div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><a href="http://us.mc561.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=iramos@cy.com.br" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">iramos@cy.com.br</a><div style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div>.Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-91843885165251117432010-11-25T15:29:00.000-03:002010-11-25T15:29:21.080-03:00Interview with Sally PriceExcerpt:<br /><p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="justify"> <span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="en-US"><strong>PROA: Your book on </strong></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="en-US"><em><strong>Maroon Arts</strong></em></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="en-US"><strong> shows how descendants of rebel slaves from diverse African origins living in Guiana and Suriname have kept alive pan-African aesthetic ideas while adapting them creatively to changing economic and social circumstances. It seems amazing that even facing much adversity (civil war, a plummeting economy, drugs, mining companies) they still care about artistic mastery. How do you explain it?</strong></span></span></span></p> <p class="western" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="justify"> <span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="en-US"><strong>SALLY PRICE: </strong></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="en-US">People don’t lose their culture just because they hit hard times. </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;">Think about the descriptions we have of Africans suffering through the horrors of the Middle Passage and arriving in the Americas where one 18th-century writer observed: “todos os escravos são levados para o convés ... e seu cabelo é raspado em diferentes imagens de estrelas, meia-luas etc., o que eles geralmente fazem uns com os outros (sem dispor de lâminas), com a ajuda de uma garrafa quebrada e sem sabão.” </span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="en-US">[J.G. Stedman, quoted in S. Mintz and R. Price, </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="en-US"><em>O Nascimento da cultura Afro-Americana</em></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:85%;"><span lang="en-US">, Pallas Editora 1992, p. 72]. I would guess that equivalent examples could be found in the open-air camps where victims of the recent earthquake in Haiti don’t even have food to eat. People are surprisingly resilient in the face of adversity. It was, for example, around the time that their villages were being bombed in the civil war that Saramaka Maroon women developed openwork carving in calabashes </span></span></span></p><br /><a href="http://www.ifch.unicamp.br/proa/EntrevistasII/entrevistasallypriceIN.html">Interview with Sally Price</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-42389740321564312212010-11-20T10:41:00.000-03:002010-11-20T10:41:15.895-03:00Let’s Rescue the Race Debate - NYTimes.com“There is another class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. ... Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs ... There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.”<p> This 100-year-old, cobbled-together quote from the “the Great Accommodator” Booker T. Washington has gotten quite a bit of circulation in the right-wing blogosphere since the Tea Party came under attack over racial issues. </p>Continue reading here:<br /><a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/opinion/20blow.html?hp">Let’s Rescue the Race Debate - NYTimes.com</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-22285152033977731422010-11-10T16:37:00.000-03:002010-11-10T16:37:35.061-03:00Gilder Lehrman Center | Frederick Douglass Prize<a href="http://www.yale.edu/glc/events/dpnotice.htm">Gilder Lehrman Center | Frederick Douglass Prize</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-70867537913946061842010-09-27T10:52:00.000-03:002010-09-27T10:52:55.301-03:00BBC News - Brazil's education challenge in bid to be world player<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-11413590">BBC News - Brazil's education challenge in bid to be world player</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-48257783545259475162010-08-30T09:03:00.000-03:002010-08-30T09:03:48.652-03:00Brazil's census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves | World news | The Guardian<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/25/brazil-2010-census-kalunga">Brazil's census offers recognition at last to descendants of runaway slaves | World news | The Guardian</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-68158062132743692702010-08-28T15:06:00.000-03:002010-08-28T15:06:18.820-03:00Op-Ed Columnist - Bob Herbert - Glenn Beck in Washington - NYTimes.com<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/28/opinion/28herbert.html?src=me&ref=homepage">Op-Ed Columnist - Bob Herbert - "America Is Better Than This" - NYTimes.com</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-90070766076727779172010-08-28T10:42:00.001-03:002010-08-28T10:42:07.465-03:00Martin Luther King's "I Have a Dream" speech<object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/PbUtL_0vAJk?fs=1&hl=en_GB"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/PbUtL_0vAJk?fs=1&hl=en_GB" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-33677473567706081432010-08-09T15:14:00.000-03:002010-08-09T15:14:59.979-03:00Seydou Keita: Photograph (1997.364) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art<a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1997.364">Seydou Keita: Photograph (1997.364) | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-16528827155396362332010-08-09T15:12:00.000-03:002010-08-09T15:12:32.186-03:00African Influences in Modern Art | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art<a href="http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/aima/hd_aima.htm">African Influences in Modern Art | Thematic Essay | Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History | The Metropolitan Museum of Art</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-74323201935520303532010-07-25T10:53:00.000-03:002010-07-25T10:53:55.439-03:00Op-Ed Columnist - You’ll Never Believe What This White House Is Missing - NYTimes.com<a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/25/opinion/25dowd.html?_r=1&emc=tnt&tntemail0=y">Op-Ed Columnist - You’ll Never Believe What This White House Is Missing - NYTimes.com</a>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-564941724716799378.post-40718809459657208042010-07-20T21:49:00.002-03:002010-07-20T21:49:32.095-03:00Color of Change: Tea Party Leaders Still Silent<strong>...The Tea Party leaders you'd actually recognize, people like Sarah Palin and Dick Armey, have stayed silent or denied that any racism exists in their ranks.</strong><sup>4</sup> And there's been no attempt to tackle the systemic problem of racism within the Party. It's time for leadership to speak up. <br />
<div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> If the Tea Party is serious about not being a home for racism there are two things all its leaders and groups must do now: </div><ol><li><strong>Publicly make clear that Mark Williams and the bigotry he stands for aren't welcome in the Tea Party movement</strong> <br />
</li>
<li><strong>Adopt a clear policy stating that racist and bigoted rhetoric and imagery will not be tolerated — by leaders, groups, or candidates — and will result in expulsion from Tea Party organizations</strong> </li>
</ol><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> You can help us force the hand of Tea Party leaders by calling on them to come out of the shadows and speak up. They need to make a choice — get serious about confronting the racism in their movement, or show, with their inaction, that they welcome and rely on bigotry as a part of their movement. </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> <strong>Either way, we need <span style="text-decoration: underline;">you</span> to make it happen.</strong> Please take a moment to add your voice now, and then ask your friends and family do the same: </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> <a d0501719b14="true" href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/322?id=2473-605038&akid=1520.1008708.RU0pXG&t=3" target="_blank"> http://www.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>teaparties/?id=2473-605038</a></div><div d03aac066c8a="act.colorofchange.org" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> While it's important to acknowledge that one group, the Tea Party Federation, met part of our demands on Sunday, the reality is that they did it in the most cynical way possible. When they dropped Williams, they refused to acknowledge the fact that Williams went unchallenged as a key leader after he called the President an "Indonesian Muslim turned welfare thug"<sup>5</sup> — or after one of many other racist rants.<sup>6</sup> They tried to downplay Williams' role in the movement and maintained that there was no pattern of racism or bigotry in their movement. </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> <strong>How it started</strong> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> On Tuesday of last week, the NAACP passed a resolution calling on the Tea Party to denounce the racist elements within its ranks, a bold and important move.<sup>7</sup> On Thursday, Mark Williams of the Tea Party Express (one of the movement's most prominent leaders) responded by publishing a blog post full of nasty racist stereotypes about Black people.<sup>8</sup> On Friday, thousands of ColorOfChange members took action to back up the NAACP and demand that Tea Party leaders expel Williams, and what he represents, from their movement.<sup>9</sup> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> On Sunday, the National Tea Party Federation (one of several national Tea Party groups) banished Williams and the Tea Party Express, but they refused to take responsibility for confronting this element of their movement, and have continued to attack the NAACP for raising the issue in the first place.<sup>10</sup> Meanwhile, the Tea Party Express is defending Williams, refusing to remove him from their leadership, and attacking the Tea Party Federation as an illegitimate group that doesn't really represent the Tea Party.<sup>11</sup> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> For the Tea Party movement to show that it's serious about confronting the racism within its ranks, prominent Tea Party leaders need to denounce Williams and the bigotry he represents, and they need to make themselves publicly accountable for purging racism from their movement. </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> It's time to give the Tea Party a choice — speak up and act, or make clear that the Tea Party is a home for racists and racism. You can help make that happen. Please add your voice and ask your friends and family to do the same: </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> <a d0501719b14="true" href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/322?id=2473-605038&akid=1520.1008708.RU0pXG&t=4" target="_blank"> http://www.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>teaparties/?id=2473-605038</a></div><div d03aac066c8a="act.colorofchange.org" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> Thanks and Peace, </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> -- James, Gabriel, William, Dani, Milton and the rest of the ColorOfChange.org team<br />
July 20th, 2010</div><div style="margin: 1em 0px;"><strong>Help support our work.</strong> ColorOfChange.org is powered by YOU — your energy and dollars. We take no money from lobbyists or large corporations that don't share our values, and our tiny staff ensures your contributions go a long way. You can contribute here:</div><div style="margin: 1em 0px;"> <a d0501719b14="true" href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/5?akid=1520.1008708.RU0pXG&t=5" target="_blank">https://secure.colorofchange.<wbr></wbr>org/contribute/ </a></div><div d03aac066c8a="act.colorofchange.org" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> References: </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 1. “Tea Party Leader Mocks NAACP ‘Coloreds’ In Online Screed,” Media Matters, 07-15-2010 <br />
<a d0501719b14="true" href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/316?akid=1520.1008708.RU0pXG&t=6" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/316?akid=1520.1008708.<wbr></wbr>RU0pXG&t=7</a></div><div d03aac066c8a="act.colorofchange.org" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 2. “Tea Party Leaders: We’re Not Racist! The NAACP Is! (AUDIO),” TPMDC, 07-14-2010 <br />
<a d0501719b14="true" href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/315?akid=1520.1008708.RU0pXG&t=8" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/315?akid=1520.1008708.<wbr></wbr>RU0pXG&t=9</a></div><div d03aac066c8a="act.colorofchange.org" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 3. “Tea Party leader says he’s done talking about race controversy,” CNN, 7-18-2010 <br />
<a d0501719b14="true" href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/323?akid=1520.1008708.RU0pXG&t=10" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/323?akid=1520.1008708.<wbr></wbr>RU0pXG&t=11</a></div><div d03aac066c8a="act.colorofchange.org" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 4. “The Charge of Racism: It’s Time to Bury the Divisive Politics of the Past,” Sarah Palin, 7-13-2010 <br />
<a d0501719b14="true" href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/324?akid=1520.1008708.RU0pXG&t=12" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/324?akid=1520.1008708.<wbr></wbr>RU0pXG&t=13</a></div><div d03aac066c8a="act.colorofchange.org" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 5.“‘Tea Party’ Leader Melts Down On CNN: Obama Is An ‘Indonesian Muslim Turned Welfare Thug,’” Huffington Post, 9-15-2009 <br />
<a d0501719b14="true" href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/325?akid=1520.1008708.RU0pXG&t=14" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/325?akid=1520.1008708.<wbr></wbr>RU0pXG&t=15</a></div><div d03aac066c8a="act.colorofchange.org" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 6. “Tea Party Express’ Mark Williams: King Of ‘Accidental’ Racism”, TPM Muckraker, 7-19-2010 <br />
<a d0501719b14="true" href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/326?akid=1520.1008708.RU0pXG&t=16" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/326?akid=1520.1008708.<wbr></wbr>RU0pXG&t=17</a></div><div d03aac066c8a="act.colorofchange.org" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 7. “NAACP Delegates Unanimously Pass Tea Party Resolution,” NAACP, 07-13-2010 <br />
<a d0501719b14="true" href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/312?akid=1520.1008708.RU0pXG&t=18" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/312?akid=1520.1008708.<wbr></wbr>RU0pXG&t=19</a></div><div d03aac066c8a="act.colorofchange.org" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 8. See Reference 1 </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 9. ColorOfChange.org email on Mark Williams, 7-16-2010 <br />
<a d0501719b14="true" href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/327?akid=1520.1008708.RU0pXG&t=20" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/327?akid=1520.1008708.<wbr></wbr>RU0pXG&t=21</a></div><div d03aac066c8a="act.colorofchange.org" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 10. “Tea Party Objects to NAACP’s ‘Selective Racism’,” CBS News, 7-18-2010 <br />
<a d0501719b14="true" href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/328?akid=1520.1008708.RU0pXG&t=22" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/328?akid=1520.1008708.<wbr></wbr>RU0pXG&t=23</a></div><div d03aac066c8a="act.colorofchange.org" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div><div style="margin: 1em 0pt;"> 11. “Tea party groups fire on each other,” Politico, 7-19-2010 <br />
<a d0501719b14="true" href="http://act.colorofchange.org/go/329?akid=1520.1008708.RU0pXG&t=24" target="_blank">http://act.colorofchange.org/<wbr></wbr>go/329?akid=1520.1008708.<wbr></wbr>RU0pXG&t=25</a></div><div d03aac066c8a="act.colorofchange.org" style="cursor: pointer; display: inline; height: 16px; padding-right: 16px; width: 16px;"> </div>Sabrina Gledhillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13765687766137221709noreply@blogger.com0