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Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:30:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Nirlene Nepomuceno.pdf: 7141675 bytes, checksum: 3327ede728e6cb5db4b3a10c13893ce4 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2011-06-10 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This paper outlines the emergence of black festivities around Christmas holidays, in Brazil and the Caribbean during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Its main objective is to identify its dynamic processes of transformation, as well as strategies used by slaved Africans to both adapt to the "new world ", and to perpetuate the ties that bound them to Africa, a necessary step to resist colonial power embodied into oppression and violence. In addition to the seasonality of the period between Christmas and January 6, these black festivities share fragments of performative literacies , which inspite of their similarities and differences are revealing the contribution of African civilization in the Americas. We propose to "read" these festivities through, mainly, cultural practices, customs and the African body which in its displacement uploaded experiences and knowledge / Este trabalho acompanha a emergência de festas de protagonismo negro, de ocorrência no ciclo natalino, em regiões do Brasil e do Caribe, durante os séculos XVIII e XIX. O objetivo é identificar seus dinâmicos processos de transformação, bem como estratégias de adaptação ao novo mundo a que africanos escravizados, burlando a repressão e a violência do poder colonial, lançaram mão para perpetuarem os vínculos que os ligavam à África. Para além da sazonalidade do período, compreendido entre Natal e 6 de janeiro, essas festas negras partilham fragmentos de textos performativos , que em suas similaridades e diferenças são reveladores do aporte civilizacional africano nas Américas. Propomos ler essas festas privilegiando costumes, práticas e, principalmente, o corpo africano, que em seu deslocamento carregou experiências e saberes

<p>This study investigates what continuities and divergences exist among selected Black autobiographies. The selected autobiographies of slaves, creative writers, and political activists are discussed both as texts produced by individuals who are in turn products of specific societies at specific periods and as interconnected books. The project pays particular attention to the various societies that produce the autobiographies directly to identify influences of environmental and cultural differences on the texts. To foreground the network these autobiographies form, on the other hand, the study adopts a cross-cultural approach to examine the continuities and divergences in them. The texts analysed are selected from Africa, the United States, and the Caribbean. Chapter one discusses some previous studies in Black autobiographies, the comparative model for studying Black autobiographies, the choice of the term autobiography, what constitutes Black autobiographies, and the self-in-service-of-community pattern of Black autobiographies. Chapter two theorizes Blackness as one of the continuities in the texts studied and foregrounds its transformative capabilities. Since various Black societies have experienced one form of colonialism or another and are in one post-colonial stage or another, chapter three discusses the relevance of post-colonial theory to a transnational study of Black autobiographies. Chapter four discusses oral African autobiographies as parts of institutionalised autobiographical traditions in African societies and the ways in which features of orality influence the written forms of the genre. Chapter five situates slave autobiographies as counter-narratives to the colonial encounter in William Shakespeare's <i>The Tempest</i>. Along with chapter five, chapters six and seven examine the continuities in Black autobiographies in terms of Blackness, resistance, the importance of naming, community, and rewriting history in the face of racist accounts of the past, and divergences in relation to concepts of Africa, religion, gender, and language. The concluding chapter summarises the continuities and divergences earlier discussed and suggests possible future directions in the study of Black autobiographies.

Based on the research questions employed in this study, the Nigerian immigrant community first began with student sojourners and is currently more effective within the African-American context. This community would perhaps have been much slower in evolving but for the crisis of institutional instability back in the Nigerian homeland as well as the policies of two American presidents. The major features of the Nigerian immigrant community with varying degrees of influences in America are: the Nigerian offspring, the Nigerian church, the Nigerian community media, the Nigeria women association, the Nigerian attorneys and physicians. The Nigerian offspring represent a conciliatory generation to Black America, the Nigerian homeland, Euro-America, and the most favorable orbit of incorporating Nigerian indices into the American mosaic. Houston, Dallas, and Atlanta exhibit one of the strongest evidences of the Southern typology of Nigerian immigrants in the U.S. Within this same setting, the generational and socio-cultural experiences of Nigerians and African-Americans are closely related. Both in their American agenda as well as aspirations toward the homelands, Nigerians are replaying the generational schemes of Black America. Analyses of the relationships between the generations of forced migration and voluntary migration in the Nigerian-U.S. based community media conform to a greater degree of understanding than misunderstanding. The benefits derived from the two historic migrations of black Africans to the U.S. are lopsided. Predisposed to neither assimilation nor integration, the Nigerian diaspora in particular exhibit a carefully selective pattern of socioeconomic identification which corresponds with segregated incorporation into society. Generally, the incorporation of the African diaspora in America favors a north to-east to-south thrust of the races of Africa. Africans from West and Central Africa, where a majority of the forced migrants were taken, are more likely to occupy an unfavorable orbit of American incorporation. Due mostly to American slavery, the Nigerian-African variable represents the most distinctive phase of reactive-global migration into the U.S. after decolonization. The predicted problem of "color line in the twentieth century" also corresponded with the reactive patterns of cross-cultural migrations particularly of the races of color and mostly at the intersection of the fifth wave of global migration. Sustained exchanges between Nigeria and the U.S. after colonialism therefore began with the fifth wave of reactive global migration. This marks an important new phase in the development and integration of Nigerian-African indices into the modern world.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, Dept. of Anthropology, 2006. / "Title from dissertation home page (viewed June 27, 2007)." Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 67-06, Section: A, page: 2213. Advisers: Gracia Clark; Richard Wilk.

Submitted by Fernando Marques Camargo Ferraz null (fernandoferraz@hotmail.com) on 2017-07-28T18:42:44Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Ferraz Unesp 2017 Final.pdf: 15414393 bytes, checksum: e43eac838563f2e9a35f54cff7576ae0 (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by LUIZA DE MENEZES ROMANETTO (luizamenezes@reitoria.unesp.br) on 2017-08-02T17:12:34Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 ferraz_fmc_dr_ia.pdf: 15414393 bytes, checksum: e43eac838563f2e9a35f54cff7576ae0 (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-02T17:12:34Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ferraz_fmc_dr_ia.pdf: 15414393 bytes, checksum: e43eac838563f2e9a35f54cff7576ae0 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-06-05 / Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) / Este trabalho tem como objetivo examinar as dinâmicas e trânsitos existentes entre a produção da dança negra estadunidense e a produção artística das danças afro-brasileiras, tomando como eixo a produção de artistas que realizaram intercâmbios entre os dois países. Deseja-se, a partir dos estudos sobre a diáspora negra, investigar como essa atuação, em espaços e períodos específicos, pôde deixar rastros que permitam afirmar influências mútuas no cenário artístico desses países, assim como identificar as especificidades presentes nesses contatos. A partir de análise histórica e etnográfica intenta-se avaliar como esses coreógrafos abordam conceitos sobre a tradição afro descendente, agenciando elementos da cultura popular brasileira e da identidade negra em suas criações. Pretende-se averiguar como esses criadores, localizados a partir das suas formações artísticas, objetivos profissionais, vínculos institucionais, engajamentos políticos e elos identitários reinventam suas práticas coreográficas inserindo-se nos processos contemporâneos de produção de dança. / This work aims to examine the existing exchange between the production of American black dance and the artistic production of African-Brazilian dances, taking into consideration the production of artists from both countries who have been in contact. By examining the studies about the Black Diaspora in specific spaces and times, the author seeks to investigate how the exchange between Brazil and the US has left traces that enable the identification of mutual influences in the dance field of these two countries. The study also aims to identify the specificities within this intercultural contact. Using historical and ethnographic analysis, the study intends to evaluate how these choreographers approach concepts about African traditional forms by intentionally appropriating elements of the Brazilian popular culture and of black identity in their creations. In this research the author is also interested in understand how these artists have reinvented their choreographic practices by identifying themselves as makers of contemporary dance - based on their artistic background, professional goals, institutional links, political engagement and identity bonds. / FAPESP: 2013/21472-8 / FAPESP: 2015/06910-4

This dissertation examines the work of concert dance artists within the Black Arts Movement (1965-75) in order to situate the impact of their work in the present. I use a method of diaspora citation to comprehend their choreographic strategies in articulating forms and critiques of belonging that continue to resonate today. My method builds on Brent Hayes Edwards’ theorization of diaspora as an articulated, or joined, structure of belonging (Edwards, 2003). This necessitates attending to décalage, or the incommensurable gaps in experience and differentiations of power across lines of nation, class, language, gender, sexuality, etc. My development of diaspora citation departs from Edwards’ provocative concept metaphor of “articulated joints” as a way to envision diaspora—as the joint is both a place of connection and is necessarily comprises the gaps which allow for movement. I propose that concert dance choreographers in the Black Arts Movement worked through the articulated joints of choreographic intertexts to build critiques and offer alternative structures of diasporic belonging. I define diaspora citation as a choreographic strategy that critiques the terms for belonging to the figure of the ‘human,’ conceived in Western modernity through property in the person, as white, Western, heteropatriarchal, propertied Man. Simultaneously, this choreographic strategy works to index, create and affirm alternative forms of belonging, articulated in/as diaspora, that operate on distinct terms. One way in which the practice of diaspora citation occurs is through Signifyin’ or ‘reading,’ a strategy of indirection and critique developed in African American social contexts. Rather than conceiving of movement as a form of property (on the terms of property in the person) these artists are driven by a sense of connection, motivated by the forms of assembly and structures of belonging enabled by bodies in motion. In their refusals of the terms for belonging to the ‘human’ (i.e. normative subjectivity), the dance artists of the Black Arts Movement examined in this dissertation announce a queer capacity to desire differently. Half a century after the historical Black Arts Movement, this project turns to its manifestations in concert dance as a usable past. The structure of the dissertation moves from 1964 into the present in order to consider the resonances of this past today. Through oral history interviews, performance and archival analysis, and participant observation, this project moves between historical, cultural analysis and embodied knowledge to pursue the choreographic uses of citation developed in Black Arts Movement concert dance contexts that imagined new ways of being human (together) in the world. / Dance

Anchored in analysis of in-depth and semi-structured interviews with 23 Black women in Britain, this research explores how media and online content-sharing is implicated in the development of Black women’s diasporic identities. Such matters are unpacked via an interpretive analytic lens, with Black feminist and social constructionist underpinnings. Shaped by critical studies of marketing, media, race, and gender, this research addresses issues concerning identity, ideology and inclusion, amidst media and digital culture. This thesis analyses media-based coping mechanisms concerning experiences of marginalisation and searches for a sense of belonging, related to intersecting issues of race, ethnicity and gender. There is analysis of how content generated by Black online users is entangled in processes of cultural transmission, counter-cultural resistance, and the construction of a digitally-mediated collective Black consciousness. As such, there is discussion of the notion of Black digital diaspora, in relation to analysis of the online media experiences of Black women in Britain. As part of this thesis, the concept of Black British diasporic literacy is also outlined, to further understand the particularities of Black identity development in Britain and how it is influenced by media content. Whilst the narratives of interview participants are emphasised in this thesis, it expands upon research that embraces a self-reflexive quality, by including reflections on the author’s own experiences as a Black and mixed-race woman.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-27T19:31:22Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese Marcelo Nascimento Bernardo da Cunha.pdf: 24023525 bytes, checksum: c6c259892e5c6b1fb33f1cb9abee751f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-06-20 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This doctor thesis analyzed various expositions linked to the issues of African culture and the black diaspora. We discussed, within the research, questions related to affirmations of identities and the search of symbolic references, which sustain the debate of cultural diversity. Cultural institutions have to commit to these questions, as they produce and transmit the scientific discussion and images. Museums and similar institutions are key-players within the process of creating images and imaginaries, and therefore its contents and its forms of presentation within the expositions should be reconsidered. The Occident produced symbolisms concerning the African continent, about the people who lived and still live there. These symbolisms contributed to the distribution and maintenance of stereotypes about this continent, including the creation of negative ideas about the presence of black people in western societies, omitting important contributions of black men and women, as well as people of mixed race (mestiços) to contemporanean identities. These recurring constructions of images and meanings are seen as heritages of social practices that used expositions or other means of divulgation in order to construct imaginaries about the white superiority and the decline of other ethnic groups. In this thesis, we analyzed, through field and documental research, processes of construction of ideologies, in Brazil and Europe. As an example, we analyzed the case of Portugal and its imperial colonization project. We analyzed expositions in museums in the city of Salvador-Bahia and Recife-Pernambuco, identifying recurring similarities concerning the treatment of the issue within these expositions. Other expositions visited and analyzed include Lisbon, Paris and Tervuren, where new forms of how to discuss the issue of African cultures were found, including their influences on and inclusion in the Western cultures / Esta tese de doutorado procurou analisar exposições voltadas a culturas africanas e das diásporas negras. Nesta pesquisa formulamos questões relacionadas à presença de matrizes culturais africanas e de referenciais simbólicos que sustentem embates em torno da diversidade cultural do patrimônio brasileiro, trazendo a instituições culturais deste gênero o compromisso com discursos e imagens por elas produzidos e transmitidos. Neste sentido, os museus e instituições similares apresentam-se como chave no processo de criação de imagens e imaginários, devendo ser repensados seus conteúdos e formas de explicitá-los em exposições. O ocidente tem produzido referenciais simbólicos acerca do continente africano, dos povos que lá viveram e ainda vivem, que em certo sentido têm contribuído para a difusão e manutenção de estereótipos acerca de culturas africanas, sendo criadas, também idéias negativas sobre a presença de negros nas culturas ocidentais, além de omissões importantes relacionadas a fundamentos da participação de homens e mulheres negros e mestiços nas sociedades contemporâneas. Consideramos tal recorrência de imagens e sentidos como heranças de práticas sociais que utilizaram exposições ou outros meios de divulgação, em projetos de construção de imaginários sobre a superioridade de brancos em detrimento de outras etnias. Neste trabalho, através de pesquisa de campo e documental, analisamos tais processos de construções ideológicas no Brasil e Europa, tomando como exemplo Portugal e sua proposta colonial imperialista. Foram analisadas exposições em museus nas cidades de Salvador-Ba e Recife-Pe, identificando-se recorrências no tratamento do tema em suas exposições. Também foram visitadas e analisadas exposições em Lisboa, Paris e Tervuren, onde identificamos novas formas de construção de discursos sobre culturas africanas e suas inserções no ocidente