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Book Immigration and Xenophobia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rosana Barbosa
  • Publisher : University Press of America
  • Release : 2009
  • ISBN : 0761841474
  • Pages : 147 pages

Download or read book Immigration and Xenophobia written by Rosana Barbosa and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 2009 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Immigration and Xenophobia, Rosana Barbosa discusses Portuguese migration to Rio de Janeiro from 1822 to 1850 as a significant aspect of the city's history. During the first half of the nineteenth century, many Portuguese fled the difficult economic and social conditions in Portugal for better economic opportunities in post-independence Brazil, which was experiencing a boom that was fuelled by such commodities as coffee. Its retail commercial sector attracted many immigrants from France, England, Spain, Italy, Germany, and most especially from Portugal. The arrival of Portuguese migrants was facilitated by the fact that they were mostly well received by the Brazilian government and elite, who wanted to create a "white" nation, while still continuing to import thousands of Africans every year. Although they were well received by the government, the Portuguese sometimes faced hostility and aggression from the population at large for reasons arising from nationalism and competition for jobs. Despite the presence of this hostility, most Portuguese immigrants in Rio de Janeiro adapted well to their new environment. They married or developed relationships with local people, bought properties in Brazil, and most did not return to Portugal. Book jacket.

Book Gloss  rio Jur  dico

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  • Author : Luanda Garibotti Victorino
  • Publisher : Disal Editora - Bantim, Canato e Guazzelli Editora Ltda
  • Release : 2012-12-06
  • ISBN : 8578441184
  • Pages : 480 pages

Download or read book Gloss rio Jur dico written by Luanda Garibotti Victorino and published by Disal Editora - Bantim, Canato e Guazzelli Editora Ltda. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elaborado de acordo com os pressupostos teóricos de terminologia e de lingüística de corpus, este Glossário reúne mais de 11 mil verbetes, utilizados na área jurídica. Apresenta não apenas traduções de termos isolados mas também de grupos de palavras e segue as normas do novo Acordo Ortográfico. Destinado a advogados, estagiários, assistentes paralegais, estudantes, tradutores e professores.

Book Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas

Download or read book Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas written by Christina K. Schaefer and published by Genealogical Publishing Com. This book was released on 1998 with total page 846 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.

Book Hello  Hello Brazil

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  • Author : Bryan McCann
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2004-05-04
  • ISBN : 9780822332732
  • Pages : 324 pages

Download or read book Hello Hello Brazil written by Bryan McCann and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVA study of the foundation of Brazilian popular music and its effect on the formation of national identity and cultural expression./div

Book Introdu    o    teoria geral da biblioteconomia

Download or read book Introdu o teoria geral da biblioteconomia written by Ronaldo Vieira and published by Interciência. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Este livro que já se tornou uma referência no contexto da Biblioteconomia e da Ciência da Informação no Brasil, Ronaldo Vieira, nesta segunda edição, amplia o foco e traz um livro ainda mais abrangente e cuidadosamente estudado sobre a sua área de formação. Assim como aconteceu na primeira edição, Ronaldo Vieira mais uma vez dá um passo à frente e atualiza as reflexões sobre o contexto de pesquisa e trabalho dos bibliotecários na sociedade. Apresenta temas que estão na pauta dos estudiosos da área e também dentro das bibliotecas espalhadas pelo país. O papel da acessibilidade, a bibliologia, mediação de leitura literária assim como o papel fundamental das bibliotecas comunitárias no contexto da formação de leitores são alguns dos pontos fundamentais de discussão nesta nova edição. Um livro para todos os leitores. Vale o destaque humanista apresentado pelo autor sobre a área e a possibilidade de conhecer os debates em torno de questões de máxima urgência no contexto da sociedade da informação e do conhecimento. Sem dúvida, uma leitura obrigatória para aqueles que pretendem enveredar pelo campo da Biblioteconomia, conhecer um pouco mais essa ciência que se renova e acompanha as transformações tecnológicas e científicas do mundo.

Book Pesquisas do Banco Mundial sobre Avalia    es de Desempenho Educacional  Volume 4

Download or read book Pesquisas do Banco Mundial sobre Avalia es de Desempenho Educacional Volume 4 written by Gerry Shiel and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-08-05 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Análise de Dados de uma Avaliação Nacional de Desempenho Educacional é o quarto de cinco volumes da série Avaliações Nacionais de Desempenho Educacional. Os outros volumes descreveram os procedimentos em uma avaliação até ao ponto em que os dados foram preparados para a análise estatística, o tópico deste volume. As análises concretas a ser realizadas dependerão das necessidades de informação dos formuladores de políticas e dos gestores no âmbito do ensino. Na maioria das avaliações nacionais, relacionam-se com a qualidade da aprendizagem dos alunos, fatores relacionados com a aprendizagem, questões de equidade, e, em alguns casos, alterações nos resultados educacionais ao longo do tempo. O Volume 4, que compreende duas partes, fornece instruções pormenorizadas acerca de como analisar dados coligidos em uma avaliação nacional. A Parte I prevê uma introdução geral à s análises estatísticas normalmente realizadas nas avaliações em grande escala, avaliando a tendência central e a dispersão das pontuações dos alunos e as relações entre as variáveis. A Parte II descreve o software IATA (Análise de Item e de Teste), que utiliza a teoria clássica dos testes e a teoria de resposta ao item para estabelecer escalas onde reportar as pontuações dos alunos. Os passos da análise das administrações de testes piloto e finais estão descritos detalhadamente. É acompanhado por um CD que contém exercícios especialmente concebidos e arquivos de dados de suporte para ambas as partes do volume. Este livro será de interesse para os especialistas em avaliação de governos nacionais, regionais e locais; instituições de investigação; e universidades.

Book The Story of Rufino

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  • Author : João José Reis
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2019-12-09
  • ISBN : 0190224371
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book The Story of Rufino written by João José Reis and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Casa de las América Prize for Brazilian Literature, The Story of Rufino reconstructs the lively biography of Rufino José Maria, set against the historical context of Brazil and Africa in the nineteenth century. The book tells the story of Rufino or Abuncare, a Yoruba Muslim from the kingdom of Oyo, in present-day Nigeria. Enslaved as an adolescent by a rival ethnic group, he was captured by Brazilian slave traders and taken to Brazil as a slave sometime in the early 1820s. In 1835, after being enslaved in Salvador and Rio Grande do Sul, Rufino bought his freedom with money he made as a hired-out slave and perhaps from making Islamic amulets. He found work in Rio de Janeiro as a cook on a slave ship bound for Luanda in Angola, despite the trans-Atlantic slave trade having been illegal in Brazil since 1831. Rufino himself became a petty slave trader. He made a few voyages before his ship was captured by the British and taken to Sierra Leone in 1841 for trial by the Anglo-Brazilian Mixed Commission to determine if it was equipped for the slave trade, since there were no slaves on board. During the three months awaiting the court's decision, Rufino lived among Yoruba Muslims, his people, and attended Quranic and Arabic classes. He later returned to Sierra Leone as a witness in a court case and attended classes with Muslim masters for almost two years. Once back in Brazil, he established himself as a diviner -- serving whites and blacks, free and slaves, Brazilians and Africans, Muslim and non-Muslims -- as well as a spiritual leader, an Alufa, in the local Afro-Muslim community. In 1853 Rufino was arrested due to rumors of an imminent African slave revolt. The police used as evidence for his arrest the large number of Arabic manuscripts in his possession, the same kind of material the police had found with Muslim rebels in Bahia thirty years earlier. During his interrogation, Rufino told his life story, which is used to reconstruct the world in which he lived under slavery and in freedom on African shores, aboard slave ships, and in Brazil. An extraordinary Atlantic history carefully pieced together from the archives, The Story of Rufino illuminates the complexities of slavery and freedom in Africa and Brazil and the resilience of ethnic and religious identities.

Book Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century S  o Paulo  Brazil

Download or read book Urban Space and National Identity in Early Twentieth Century S o Paulo Brazil written by C. Peixoto-Mehrtens and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-10-25 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on how the political, cultural, and technical networks within the field of engineering provided the space within which an important professional middle class prospered in the city of São Paulo and made lasting contributions to the development of modern Brazil.

Book Tecnicas Modernas de Gravacao de Audio

Download or read book Tecnicas Modernas de Gravacao de Audio written by David Miles Huber and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2011-08-11 with total page 660 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We have entered an exciting age in audio production. Conventional limitations in recording have subsided or vanished entirely, making it possible to create and record your own music in ways that few ever dreamed possible. This expanded, up-to-date edition of Modern Recording Techniques can help guide you through the process of creating, understanding and mastering the professional and project studio. The tips, tricks, and tools in this best-selling book will enable you to record music in new and innovative ways that'll help you express your talents to their fullest potential. This definitive guide to audio covers the latest audio technologies, and includes expanded and enhanced sections on the Digital Audio Workstation (DAW), plug-ins, looping, groove tools, studio techniques, surround sound, mastering and more. Accompanied by an interactive companion website (www.modrec.com) featuring a searchable audio glossary, this dynamite book/website combination leaves no recording question unanswered, while offering you the chance to share ideas, get tips, and seek out advice when and where you need it. With Modern Recording Techniques, 7th ed., you can: * Explore the tools for getting better results in both the professional and project recording studio * Gain in-depth insights into digital audio technology, the digital audio workstation (DAW), surround sound production, electronic music and MIDI, synchronization, analog and digital console technology, mixing, console automation and more * Master the basics of dynamics, noise reduction, and other forms of signal processing in both the analog and the digital domains * Learn practical microphone placement techniques, monitoring fundamentals, CD mastering and important tips on getting your music to market * Check out new developments in new media, desktop audio and music technologies for the Web

Book The Public Good and the Brazilian State

Download or read book The Public Good and the Brazilian State written by Anne G. Hanley and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who and what a government taxes, and how the government spends the money collected, are questions of primary concern to governments large and small, national and local. When public revenues pay for high-quality infrastructure and social services, citizens thrive and crises are averted. When public revenues are inadequate to provide those goods, inequality thrives and communities can verge into unrest—as evidenced by the riots during Greece’s financial meltdown and by the needless loss of life in Haiti’s collapse in the wake of the earthquake. In The Public Good and the Brazilian State, Anne G. Hanley assembles an economic history of public revenues as they developed in nineteenth-century Brazil. Specifically, Hanley investigates the financial life of the municipality—a district comparable to the county in the United States—to understand how the local state organized and prioritized the provision of public services, what revenues paid for those services, and what happened when the revenues collected failed to satisfy local needs. Through detailed analyses of municipal ordinances, mayoral reports, citizen complaints, and financial documents, Hanley sheds light on the evolution of public finance and its effect on the early economic development of Brazilian society. This deeply researched book offers valuable insights for anyone seeking to better understand how municipal finance informs histories of inequality and underdevelopment.

Book Before Bras  lia

    Book Details:
  • Author : Mary C. Karasch
  • Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
  • Release : 2016
  • ISBN : 0826357628
  • Pages : 454 pages

Download or read book Before Bras lia written by Mary C. Karasch and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PART THREE: Points of Contact and Culture Change -- 8: People of the Holy Spirit: Christians and Their Sacred Spaces -- 9: Shadows in the Night: Women and Gender Relations -- 10: Defenders of the Conquest and Useful Vassals: The Free People of Color -- CONCLUSION: Reflections on Frontiers/Borderlands of Central Brazil -- APPENDIX A: Indigenous Nations of Central Brazil -- APPENDIX B : Censuses -- APPENDIX C: Colonial Churches and Lay Brotherhoods in the Captaincy of Goiás -- Glossary -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Back Cover

Book A Discontented Diaspora

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jeffrey Lesser
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2007-09-14
  • ISBN : 0822390485
  • Pages : 251 pages

Download or read book A Discontented Diaspora written by Jeffrey Lesser and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2007-09-14 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Discontented Diaspora, Jeffrey Lesser investigates broad questions of ethnicity, the nature of diasporic identity, and Brazilian culture. He does so by exploring particular experiences of young Japanese Brazilians who came of age in São Paulo during the 1960s and 1970s, an intensely authoritarian period of military rule. The most populous city in Brazil, São Paulo was also the world’s largest “Japanese” city outside of Japan by 1960. Believing that their own regional identity should be the national one, residents of São Paulo constantly discussed the relationship between Brazilianness and Japaneseness. As second-generation Nikkei (Brazilians of Japanese descent) moved from the agricultural countryside of their immigrant parents into various urban professions, they became the “best Brazilians” in terms of their ability to modernize the country and the “worst Brazilians” because they were believed to be the least likely to fulfill the cultural dream of whitening. Lesser analyzes how Nikkei both resisted and conformed to others’ perceptions of their identity as they struggled to define and claim their own ethnicity within São Paulo during the military dictatorship. Lesser draws on a wide range of sources, including films, oral histories, wanted posters, advertisements, newspapers, photographs, police reports, government records, and diplomatic correspondence. He focuses on two particular cultural arenas—erotic cinema and political militancy—which highlight the ways that Japanese Brazilians imagined themselves to be Brazilian. As he explains, young Nikkei were sure that their participation in these two realms would be recognized for its Brazilianness. They were mistaken. Whether joining banned political movements, training as guerrilla fighters, or acting in erotic films, the subjects of A Discontented Diaspora militantly asserted their Brazilianness only to find that doing so reinforced their minority status.

Book Crossroads of Freedom

    Book Details:
  • Author : Walter Fraga
  • Publisher : Duke University Press
  • Release : 2016-04-15
  • ISBN : 0822374552
  • Pages : 235 pages

Download or read book Crossroads of Freedom written by Walter Fraga and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: By 1870 the sugar plantations of the Recôncavo region in Bahia, Brazil, held at least seventy thousand slaves, making it one of the largest and most enduring slave societies in the Americas. In this new translation of Crossroads of Freedom—which won the 2011 Clarence H. Haring Prize for the Most Outstanding Book on Latin American History—Walter Fraga charts these slaves' daily lives and recounts their struggle to make a future for themselves following slavery's abolition in 1888. Through painstaking archival research, he illuminates the hopes, difficulties, opportunities, and setbacks of ex-slaves and plantation owners alike as they adjusted to their postabolition environment. Breaking new ground in Brazilian historiography, Fraga does not see an abrupt shift with slavery's abolition; rather, he describes a period of continuous change in which the strategies, customs, and identities that slaves built under slavery allowed them to navigate their newfound freedom. Fraga's analysis of how Recôncavo's residents came to define freedom and slavery more accurately describes this seminal period in Brazilian history, while clarifying how slavery and freedom are understood in the present.

Book The Moving Form of Film

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  • Author : Lúcia Nagib
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2023-05-12
  • ISBN : 0197621708
  • Pages : 345 pages

Download or read book The Moving Form of Film written by Lúcia Nagib and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-12 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moving Form of Film: Historicizing the Medium through Other Media charts the ways in which crossing borders between film and other arts and media can provide an encompassing, inclusive, and non-teleological understanding of film history. Evolutionary narratives of cinema have traditionally adopted the Second World War as a watershed that separates 'classical' Hollywood films from 'modern' European productions, a scheme that subjects the entire world to the cinematic history of two hegemonic centres. In turn, histories of film as a technological medium have focused on the specificity of cinema as it gradually separated from the other art and medial forms - theatre, dance, fairground spectacle, painting, literature, still photography and other pre-cinematic modes. Taking an ambitious step forward with relation to these approaches, this book focuses on the fluid quality of the film form by exploring an array of exciting and often neglected artistic expressions worldwide as they compare and interconnect films across temporal, geographical, and cultural borders. By observing the ebb and flow of film's contours within the bounds of other artistic and medial expressions, the chapters aspire to establish a flexible historical platform for the moving form of film, posited, from production to consumption, as a transforming and transformative medium.

Book Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society

Download or read book Sugar Plantations in the Formation of Brazilian Society written by Stuart B. Schwartz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1985 with total page 644 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colonial Brazil was a multiracial society, profoundly influenced by slavery and the plantation system. This study examines the history of the sugar economy and the peculiar development of plantation society over a three hundred year period in Bahia, a major sugar-plantation zone and an important terminus of the Atlantic slave trade.

Book The Sacred Cause

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  • Author : Jeffrey Needell
  • Publisher : Stanford University Press
  • Release : 2020-01-07
  • ISBN : 1503611035
  • Pages : 542 pages

Download or read book The Sacred Cause written by Jeffrey Needell and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries, slaveholding was a commonplace in Brazil among both whites and people of color. Abolition was only achieved in 1888, in an unprecedented, turbulent political process. How was the Abolitionist movement (1879-1888) able to bring an end to a form of labor that was traditionally perceived as both indispensable and entirely legitimate? How were the slaveholders who dominated Brazil's constitutional monarchy compelled to agree to it? To answer these questions, we must understand the elite political world that abolitionism challenged and changed—and how the Abolitionist movement evolved in turn. The Sacred Cause analyzes the relations between the movement, its Afro-Brazilian following, and the evolving response of the parliamentary regime in Rio de Janeiro. Jeffrey Needell highlights the significance of racial identity and solidarity to the Abolitionist movement, showing how Afro-Brazilian leadership, organization, and popular mobilization were critical to the movement's identity, nature, and impact.

Book Archival Silences

Download or read book Archival Silences written by Michael Moss and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-05-10 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archival Silences demonstrates emphatically that archival absences exist all over the globe. The book questions whether benign ‘silence’ is an appropriate label for the variety of destructions, concealment and absences that can be identified within archival collections. Including contributions from archivists and scholars working around the world, this truly international collection examines archives in Australia, Brazil, Denmark, England, India, Iceland, Jamaica, Malawi, The Philippines, Scotland, Turkey and the United States. Making a clear link between autocratic regimes and the failure to record often horrendous crimes against humanity, the volume demonstrates that the failure of governments to create records, or to allow access to records, appears to be universal. Arguing that this helps to establish a hegemonic narrative that excludes the ‘other’, this book showcases the actions historians and archivists have taken to ensure that gaps in archives are filled. Yet the book also claims that silences in archives are inevitable and argues not only that recordkeeping should be mandated by international courts and bodies, but that we need to develop other ways of reading archives broadly conceived to compensate for absences. Archival Silences addresses fundamental issues of access to the written record around the world. It is directed at those with a concern for social justice, particularly scholars and students of archival studies, history, sociology, international relations, international law, business administration and information science.