Contemporary Afro-Brazil: A Multidisciplinary Anthology Contributor(s): Wasserman, Bonnie S. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1516525906 ISBN-13: 9781516525904 Publisher: Cognella Academic Publishing OUR PRICE: $226.05 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2018 |
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BISAC Categories: - Travel | South America - Brazil |
Physical Information: 0.83" H x 8" W x 10" (1.77 lbs) 406 pages |
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Publisher Description: Contemporary Afro-Brazil: A Multidisciplinary Anthology exposes students to all aspects of Afro-Brazilian culture, including sports, music and dance, ideas of gender, socioeconomic and political disparities, and more. The anthology includes primary and secondary sources that emphasize and demonstrate the African influence in Brazilian culture from the beginning of the Atlantic Slave Trade to today. Bonnie S. Wasserman, Ph.D., earned her doctorate in Portuguese with a minor in African languages and literature from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, her M.A. in political science from the University of California, Berkeley, and her B.A. in Portuguese and Ibero-American studies from University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an assistant professor of Africana studies at the University of Arizona. She is a two-time Fulbright scholar (Portugal, 1994-1995; Barbados, 2011). Her specific areas of academic expertise include Lusophone film and literature, African diaspora, Sephardic studies, and Latinx culture, to name a few. |