Barbarie en Branco e Negro

Trading Places: From Black Power Activist to "Anti-Negro Negro"

In March of 1988, the faculty of the Afro-American Studies Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst unanimously demanded that the University remove one of its most distinguished members, Professor Julius Lester. The official reason given for this unprecedented request was that Lester had become an "anti-Negro-Negro." In making this extraordinary demand, Lester's colleagues were ...

Wide but not impermeable: Testing the riverine barrier hypothesis for an Amazonian plant species.

Wallace's riverine barrier hypothesis postulates that large rivers, such as the Amazon and its tributaries, reduce or prevent gene flow between populations on opposite banks, leading to allopatry and areas of species endemism occupying interfluvial regions. Several studies have shown that two major tributaries, Rio Branco and Rio Negro, are important barriers to gene flow for birds, amphibians ...

W. E. B. Du Bois: Interpreting Religion and the Problem of the Negro Church

W. E. B. Du Bois’s contribution to the study of the Negro Church was his historical argument about the viability and influence of African culture. Du Bois asserted the partial autonomy and creativity of black culture. This was a crucial achievement in his day when normative theories of African cultural “backwardness” prevailed. Du Bois’s detailed analyses of particular local black communities a...

Leveza E Humor Na Encenação Da Catástrofe: O Teatro Negro De

The aim of this article is to present the dark theater of Antônio Callado, highlighting the importance of the play Pedro Mico in which, for the first time, a shantytown in Rio de Janeiro is the dramatic focus. The text analyses the way Callado represents the contradiction between the town of the poor and the town of the rich people during a time in which Brazil lived its dream of development ex...

Rhisosensitization in the American Negro.