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Title: Blessed Anastacia: Women, Race, and Popular Christianity in Brazil by John Burdick ISBN: 0-415-91260-1 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: November, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant integration of race, class, gender and religion
Comment: In a course on Afro-Brazilians, this book was by far the favourite of the class. It's pleasurable to read, no prior knowledge of Brazilian culture is necessary, and it provides insights even to scholars in the field. It brings to life the situation of black women in poverty in Brazil, describing the role of religion and Brazil's attitude towards race. Burdick illustrates the complexity of race and the effects on the women he interviewed, and ties it all to the curious figure of Anastácia, the blue-eyed slave.
And rather than being a lofty academic exercise, Burdick uses his research and involvement in the communities to help advance their social situation. One chapter describes his attempts to promote communication between groups which have radically different approaches to the same goal of ending racism. This is academia with its feet firmly planted in the ground.
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Title: Travesti: Sex, Gender, and Culture Among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes (Worlds of Desire, the Chicago Series on Sexuality, Gender and Culture) by Don Kulick ISBN: 0226461009 Publisher: University of Chicago Press Pub. Date: October, 1998 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Brazil : The Once and Future Country by Marshall C. Eakin ISBN: 0312214456 Publisher: Griffin Trade Paperback Pub. Date: 15 September, 1998 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Women of Chiapas: Making History in Times of Struggle and Hope by Christine Eber, Christine Kovic ISBN: 0415945577 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: August, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Brazil: Five Centuries of Change (Latin American Histories (Paper)) by Thomas E. Skidmore ISBN: 0195058100 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: January, 1999 List Price(USD): $28.95 |
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Title: Samba by Alma Guillermoprieto ISBN: 067973256X Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 30 July, 1991 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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