Araujo on Public Memory of Slavery

August 12, 2010 in Ana Lucia Araujo
Tags: african diaspora, books, brazil, public history, scholarship

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 the African Diaspora in the reconstructions of the slave past, most authors have limited their analysis to the African American community and [...]

Review: Divanna on Identity in Brazil

March 18, 2010 in Isabel Divanna
Tags: african diaspora, book reviews, brazil, scholarship

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 [...]

Luso-Brazilian Review Special Issue: ReCapricorning the Atlantic

October 28, 2008 in Andre Duner Frank, Ben Penglase, David Brion Davis, David Eltis, Hebe Mattos, Isabel Ferreira Gould, Paulina Alberto, Petter M. Beattie, Thaïs Machado-Borges, Walter Hawthorne
Tags: articles, brazil

Volume 45, Issue 1 (2008) includes: Hebe Mattos. ““Black Troops” and Hierarchies of Color in the Portuguese Atlantic World: The Case of Henrique Dias and His Black Regiment.” Luso-Brazilian Review 45, no. 1 (2008): 6-29. Walter Hawthorne. ““Being now, as it were, one family”: Shipmate bonding on the slave vessel Emilia, in Rio de Janeiro [...]