The Sacred Cause: The Abolitionist Movement, Afro-Brazilian Mobilization, and Imperial Politics in Rio de Janeiro

2021 ◽  
Vol 101 (3) ◽  
pp. 520-521
Author(s):  
Robin Blackburn
Author(s):  
Jeffrey D. Needell

The Introduction lays out the past and recent historiography to explain the necessity for this book, emphasizing its focus on parliamentary history (poorly understood and generally ignored over the past fifty years), Afro-Brazilian mobilization (here restored to its primacy in the origins and constitution of the movement), and Rio de Janeiro (cockpit of imperial politics). It also emphasizes the importance of understanding the movement’s history chronologically, as something born of the interactions between itself and parliament, the monarch, and the Afro-Brazilian middle class and masses in Rio over time. Finally, it provides a brief account of the contents of each chapter


2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mário de Andrade

Abstract “The music of sorcery in Brazil” was given as a lecture by Mário de Andrade to the Brazilian Music Association (Associação Brasileira de Música), in Rio de Janeiro, in 1933. The author never managed to complete its revision for publication. This was undertaken by Oneyda Alvarenga, who published the text of the lecture and a series of related documents in Volume XIII - Música de Feitiçaria no Brasil-of the Complete Works of Mário de Andrade (Editora Itatiaia/Instituto Nacional do Livro, 1983, p.23-70). The author is in search for the role of music, with its distinctive rhythms and melodic form, in the mystical trance of Afro-Brazilian religions. The text combines the flavour of his direct research experience in the catimbó of the Brazilian Northeast; his erudite bibliographical studies that were strongly influenced by evolutionary and diffusionist anthropology at the end of the 19th century and beginning of the twentieth; and an analysis of the music of macumba in the Rio de Janeiro around the 1930s as found in the recordings that Andrade so much enjoyed collecting and listening to.


2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 97
Author(s):  
Patrícia Duarte Pinto ◽  
Mozart Matheus de Andrade Carvalho

O objetivo deste trabalho é analisar e comparar narrativas presentes em livros didáticos produzidos no início dos séculos XX e XXI com a finalidade de compreender como o negro, a escravidão e o movimento abolicionista no Brasil, foram abordados ao longo do tempo, nessas fontes. Nota-se que houve uma profunda alteração na abordagem dos conteúdos relacionados a essa temática, ocorridas, entre outros motivos, pela implantação de políticas públicas, como o Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (PNLD), e a lei nº 10.639/03, que tornou obrigatório o estudo da História e da Cultura Afro-Brasileira nas instituições de ensino fundamental e médio de todo o país, juntamente com as mudanças  da historiografia brasileira ocorrida a partir dos anos 1980, nomeadamente das pesquisas acadêmicas sobre a escravidão.Palavras-chave: Livros Didáticos, História, Escravidão. Abstract The aim of this work is to analyze and compare narratives present in textbooks written in the beginning of the XX and XXI centuries with the purpose of understanding the approach on Black people, slavery and the abolitionist movement in Brazil over time in these sources. It is noted that there was a profound change in the approach to the content related to these themes, which occurred, among other reasons, by the implementation of public policies, such as the Programa Nacional do Livro Didático (National Textbook Program - PNLD), and the Law No. 10.639/03, which has made mandatory the study of Afro-Brazilian History and Culture in primary and secondary schools throughout the country, together with the changes in Brazilian historiography from the 1980s on, namely, academic researches on slavery.Keywords: Textbooks, History, Slavery.


2010 ◽  
Vol 42 (2) ◽  
pp. 231-261 ◽  
Author(s):  
JEFFREY D. NEEDELL

AbstractExplanations of the Abolitionist movement's success in Brazil (1888) have, since the 1960s and 1970s, emphasised the movement's material context, its class nature, and the agency of the captives. These analyses have misunderstood and gradually ignored the movement's formal political history. Even the central role of urban political mobilisation is generally neglected; when it is addressed, it is crippled by lack of informed analysis of its articulation with formal politics and political history. It is time to recover the relationship between Afro-Brazilian agency and the politics of the elite. In this article this is illustrated by analysing two conjunctures critical to the Abolitionist movement: the rise and fall of the reformist Dantas cabinet in 1884–85, and the relationship between the reactionary Cotegipe cabinet (1885–88), the radicalisation of the movement, and the desperate reformism that led to the Golden Law of 13 May 1888.


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