Download or read book Cape Verde Let s Go written by Derek Pardue and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-11-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Musicians rapping in kriolu--a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde--have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant community that shares not only the kriolu language but its culture and history. Drawing on fieldwork and archival research in Portugal and Cape Verde, Derek Pardue introduces Lisbon's kriolu rap scene and its role in challenging metropolitan Portuguese identities. Pardue demonstrates that Cape Verde, while relatively small within the Portuguese diaspora, offers valuable lessons about the politics of experience and social agency within a postcolonial context that remains poorly understood. As he argues, knowing more about both Cape Verdeans and the Portuguese invites clearer assessments of the relationship between the experience and policies of migration. That in turn allows us to better gauge citizenship as a balance of individual achievement and cultural ascription. Deftly shifting from domestic to public spaces and from social media to ethnographic theory, Pardue describes an overlooked phenomenon transforming Portugal, one sure to have parallels in former colonial powers across twenty-first-century Europe.

Download or read book Cape Verdean Blues written by Shauna Barbosa and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2018-04-07 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The speaker in Cape Verdean Blues is an oracle walking down the street. Shauna Barbosa interrogates encounters and the weight of their space. Grounded in bodily experience and the phenomenology of femininity, this collection provides a sense of Cape Verdean identity. It uniquely captures the essence of “Sodade,” as it refers to the Cape Verdean American experience, and also the nostalgia and self-reflection one navigates through relationships lived, lost, and imagined. And its layers of unusual imagery and sound hold the reader in their grip.

Download or read book Villains Always Make Mistakes written by Richard Thompson and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2015-07-25 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaron Recess is a glazier for Cape Verdean Glass. Until his co-worker introduces him to cocaine, weed is the only drug that Aaron does. He snorts the cocaine in his frontroom while being watched by Danielle, a firebrand woman with frightening normalcy despite her otherworldly evilness. As a result of his descent into the proverbial silent aquamarine depths of a watery world, Aarons nose undergoes a transformation that a lowlife makes after he supplied the fatal drug dose to a woman Aaron has never met. Detailed with a lipsticked harridan, biracial litterbug, hopped-up teetotaler, German spelunker, and more, Villains Always Make Mistakes shadows Aaron in real time during his trailblazing misadventure to find out why Danielle is a wolf in sheeps clothing.

Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Download or read book Ebony written by and published by . This book was released on 2008-02 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EBONY is the flagship magazine of Johnson Publishing. Founded in 1945 by John H. Johnson, it still maintains the highest global circulation of any African American-focused magazine.

Download or read book Cape Verde Other Places Travel Guide written by Callie Flood and published by Other Places Publishing. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cape Verde is an elusive mix of everything: A blend of Portugal, a dash of Brazil, a hint of American and a slice of Africa. Once known as the "Forgotten Islands," the archipelago has emerged to offer everything from isolated windswept beaches, mountainous misty forests, giant salt flats, and black volcanic lava flows to top-of-the line luxury hotels with the latest technology as well as small-town pensions in remote villages, rich in tradition. The most inviting aspect of this country is the charm, candor and genuine hospitality of its people, and the vibrant, rich diversity of each island. They may be known as the Forgotten Islands, but they are anything but forgettable.

Download or read book Glory Road written by John Labban and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2008-04-25 with total page 645 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phillip Dexter and his family moved to the pristine city of Quanah, Texas in the summer of 1988 seeking the American Dream. Ronald Dexter left Edmonton, Alberta to work for the powerful oil giant Tricon Enterprise. Life was great until the horrifying accident one summer night in 1991 changed all their lives. With a greedy and reckless CEO, Tricon Enterprise works to shield the real truth behind the tragedy. Phillips desire to seek revenge for his fathers death pits him against the powerful oil giant, Tricon Enterprise, the legendary CEO Frank Beasley, and his son Mark Beasley. Phillips quest for revenge is at a standstill, with the powerful oil giant the CEO having the upperhand. That is until fate sides with the young boy. Julie Matheson and her family arrive in Quanah from Houston. Mark Beasleys best friend and biggest ally Aaron Jennings has one slight flaw. Hes in love with the same girl as Mark. With one mans jealousy, and anothers desire for revenge; the giant oil firm gets taken for the ride of a lifetime when the powerful CEO is cut down in cold blood. Now, the hunter becomes the hunted. Friends become enemies. Enemies become friends. Greed, murder, betrayal, and jealousy pit one against another when they seek to outscheme each other to take control of the giant oil company, the money, and the ultimate prize - Julie Matheson. In the end, though, will any of them be standing while they chase the prize?

Download or read book The Making of the Cape Verdean written by Manuel E. Costa Sr. and published by AuthorHouse. This book was released on 2011-05-20 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Making of the Cape Verdean is a book written about Cape Verdeans who migrated from the Cape Verde Islands in the late 1800's to the 1970's to New Bedford Massachusetts. The book is based on the historical facts about the Portuguese colonization of the Cape Verde islands and its people located off the West Coast of Africa. The author provides the history of colonization under Portuguese rule of Salazar and how the Cape Verdean people survived famine, imprisonment, torture, politcal unrest and the abandonment of the Portuguese government. In addition, the author gives you a voyeuristic view of what life was like growing up in the Cape Verdean community in New Bedford after they migrated to the United States. This book is a powerful recap of of Cape Verdeans from this period and location. There is no other documentation that captures the Cape Verdeans the way "The Making of the Cape Verdean" does in this book.

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Download or read book The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde written by Márcia Rego and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2015-04-08 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde: Slavery, Language, and Ideology is an ethnographic study of language use and ideology in Cape Verde, from its early settlement as a center for slave trade, to the postcolonial present. The study is methodologically rich and innovative in that it weaves together historical, linguistic, and ethnographic data from different eras with sketches of contemporary life—a homicide trial, a scholarly meeting, a competition for a new national flag, a heterodox Catholic mass, an analysis of love letters, a priest’s sermon, and a death in the neighborhood. In all these different contexts, Márcia Rego focuses on the role of Kriolu (the Cape Verdean Creole) and its relation to Portuguese—that is, on the way people live through speaking. The Dialogic Nation of Cape Verde shows how, through the dialogic give-and-take of the two languages, Cape Verdeans wrestle with deep-seated colonial hierarchies, invent and rehearse new traditions, and articulate their identity as a sovereign, creole nation.

Download or read book The Eruption of Insular Identities written by Brianna Medeiros and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-21 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Eruption of Insular Identities explores themes common to the literatures of the Azores and Cape Verde, two isolated archipelagos in the former Portuguese empire but contemporaneously in the Portuguese-speaking world. In the 1930s, writers from both archipelagoes initiated projects to explore acorianidade and caboverdianidade, firmly placing narratives within their respective regional spaces, a tradition that would be continued by following generations. Despite vast differences in the realities in the two archipelagos in terms of race and politics, the insularity lent itself to two bodies of literature with striking similarities. The authors aim is to set out these similarities as a means to understanding the differences in rhetoric and treatment of this commonality. Earlier scholarly work has suggested the comparison, but this book is the first extensive study comparing the literatures of the two archipelagoes. Within the field of Lusophone studies, the study of Lusophone African literatures are gaining international literary appeal. Cape Verdean writer Germano Almeida won the Premio Camoes in 2018, one of the most prestigious awards for Portuguese-language authors. His work is explored extensively in the volume. The Eruption of Insular Identities provides a perspective on Cape Verdean literature that brings to the fore the nations social reality and literary production its individual insularity which distances it from most of the other Lusophone African nations. And it provides an in-depth comparison to the second region under study, the Azores.

Download or read book The Case of the Wrong Cream and Echoes from Cape Verde and America written by Tiffany Silva and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2018-01-17 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in the USA on July 4, 1945, from parents from the Cape Verde Island, it was hard for Tiffany to go unnoticed in life. Although of extraordinary beauty, she never placed importance on her physical appearance but rather on inner qualities, qualities she had to learn to refine and renew in order to survive on three continents. She learned the infinite and free gift that the Creator has given to each and every person: the ability to be born again an unending number of times, and that through pain and suffering, we can learn how to be better people, fellow humans who can make more gentle and livable the life on planet Earth. She hopes, through this book, and others that she will surely write, to reach out with love to every person on the face of the earth and help them to realize that all of us are unique, precious, and full of love that can only be visible if we try each and every day to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, body, and mind, and to love our neighbor (who is not just the man, woman, or child next door but a fellow human being who may be in need) as ourselves.

Download or read book The Vanderhorns written by Tyrone Sharpe and published by Page Publishing Inc. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life has been anything but easy for 17-year-old orphan, Harriet Vanderhorn, a morally corrupt teenager, forcibly raped and impregnated by a homeless transient. Adamant that she does not want the baby, she is coerced by her social worker and foster parents not to abort. She gives birth to an adorable baby girl, who she names Gloria. For Harriet's 18th birthday, her foster father, Dan Smith, gives her enough money to sustain her for a few years. Needing to get away, Harriet moves to Cowdung, Tennessee. With no sense of direction and a town full of predators, Harriet does not stand a chance. Harriet, with Gloria in tow, begins a rapid descent into the fiery depths of hell.

Download or read book Identity Processes and Dynamics in Multi ethnic Europe written by Charles Westin and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: JosT Bastos is an associate professor of anthropology at the New University of Lisbon. --

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Download or read book From Forecastle to Cabin written by Samuel Samuels and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2012-03-05 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the autobiography of an American who ran away to sea at the age of 11 and charts his rise from the lowliest seaman (berthed under the forecastle) to the command of his own ship and the occupation of the luxurious after cabin. In the course of an action-packed career spanning half a century, he experienced almost all of the vicissitudes of life in the nineteenth-century merchant service: storm and shipwreck, famine and disease, press-gangs and desertion, piracy, violence and mutiny this last, at different times, as both mutineer and victim. Like many a sailor he was often in more danger ashore than afloat, but many of his adventures make excellent stories not least his romantic, but foolhardy rescue of a Christian woman from the harem in Constantinople. In this case the story did not quite follow the script, as she married his accomplice in the rescue. Samuels is best known for his later career, as captain of the packet ship Dreadnought, a ship built especially for him and under his direction. Known as The Wild Boat of the Atlantic in the 1850s this ship was reckoned the fastest vessel on the New YorkLiverpool service, and regularly beat even the steamers on this route. This success was largely down to Samuels hard-driving style as master, and much of the latter part of the book is taken up with the resulting crew troubles, culminating in a full-blown mutiny that he put down with characteristic forcefulness.

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