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Showing 1 to 20 of 337 for “"Afro"”.
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Afro-Cuban and Latin Jazz Compositions
… challenges include writing music with different Afro-Cuban rhythms as well as the use of the clave as a backbeat to the melodic ideas. Also, it explores different harmonic and melodic approaches used in a composition and stylistic ideas reflected in jazz styles. For each piece, the composer makes …
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Afro-Canadian activism in the 1960s
Afro-Canadian activism became increasingly militant in the 1960s. The rise in militancy in the Afro-American leadership of the 1960s was one factor contributing to the new era of black politics in Canada. Increased immigration from the West Indies also encouraged the proliferation of Afro-Canadian …
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Screening African Conflicts : the different faces of Africa's child soldiers - Afro-pessimistic / Afro-optimistic portrayals on screen
… the focus is turned entirely to the Afro-pessimistic / Afro-optimistic cinematic representations of African child soldiers in three case study films: Ezra (2007), The Silent Army (2008) and War Witch (2012). These films were closely analysed at the hand of certain research question …
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The Picaresque in Six Afro-American Novels
… areas, the "Bad Nigger." Certain traditions of Afro-American literature and culture coincide with some characteristics of the picaresque: flights from slavery and the Great Migration; "masking"; a marginal economic and social status; satire at the expense of masters; victimization; the …
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The Afro-American and the Second World War
… in Allied propaganda were seized upon by Afro-Americans in order to press their claims for equality at home. This war on two fronts, as it was called, found expression in black newspapers, in literature, and in song and the common theme was that service in the armed forces or in defence …
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Afro culture and performance within the bar space
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Redefining Blackness in the Age of Whiteness: Mimicry, Ancestry, Gender Performance, and Self-Identity in Afro-Caribbean and Afro-American Literature
<p>The elements associated with mimicry and colonialism are found in Elizabeth Nunez’s <em>Prospero’s Daughter </em>(2006), as the novel reveals how colonized subjects use mimicry to survive their colonized spaces. Keeping in mind the ideologies of Homi Bhabha and Wumi Raji, the novel also suggests …
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Beyond Mourning: Afro-Pessimism in Contemporary African American Fiction
… Me, and Get Out as texts which share a similarly afro-pessimistic understanding of black life as defined by this relationship to systemic racist violence. These readings protest the precariousness of black life to everyday racist violence by offering space for empathetic engagement between black …
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Mediating Blackness: Afro Puerto Rican Women and Popular Culture
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Migration and cultural identity: Performing the Afro-Caribbean woman's struggle
1 PDF file (vi, 137 pages)
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The Triple Double: Racially Ambiguous Afro-Latino Identities in America
… exploring the ethno-racial ambiguity of Afro-Latino identities in America. By exploring trends associated with the Center for Strategic and International Studies' projection of the Seven Global Challenges, this course of study considers how intercultural identities and values contribute …
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Ação popular e defesa do patrimônio cultural religioso afro-brasileiro
… além das outras subdivisões da religiosidade afro-brasileira. Por ser tratado de maneira especial pela Constituição Federal, onde se percebe o interesse de tutela, o patrimônio material e imaterial da sociedade brasileira necessita de instrumentos processuais coletivos onde reste assegurada a …
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Monsoon rainfall and the circulation in the Afro-Asian regions.
Thesis. 1976. M.S. cn--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Meteorology.
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Tango Mulatto: The Untold Afro-Argentine History of Tango, 1800s-1900s
… African elements in Argentine culture, the Afro-Argentine contribution to tango is often denied or unnoticed. To research this topic, I analyzed secondary sources such as texts from political leaders, scholars, and writers, as well as consulted primary resources including Afro-Argentine …
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Consuming Brazil: Afro Brazilian Religion as a Base for Actor Training
… In this study I explore one such culture, the Afro Brazilian religion Umbanda. First, I examine its formation to illuminate how the religion itself performed (or served as a site for cultural interaction) throughout history. Then, I explore the practice of the religion both apart from and in …
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A Tropical Flour: Manioc in the Afro-Brazilian World, 1500-1800
… crop manioc [Manihot esulenta] throughout the Afro-Portuguese world between ca. 1500 to ca.1800. In addition to tracing the spatial movement of the plant, this thesis will also show how manioc was culturally redefined as an African crop and how this effected its reception and meaning upon …
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The Kaleidoscopic Unsaid: Voice, Memory, and Body of the Afro-Americas
… dissertation explores the self-representation of Afro-diasporic subjects in the Americas through the kaleidoscopic unsaid. In this metaphor the kaleidoscope is the global power structure while the unsaid is the articulation that emerges for these subjects within this world order. Using three case …
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