USA & Brazil in gantois power and the transnational origin of Afro-Brazilian studies

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Autor(a) principal: Sansone,Livio
Data de Publicação: 2011
Tipo de documento: Artigo
Idioma: eng
Título da fonte: Vibrant
Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1809-43412011000100023
Resumo: Between 1941 and 1943 the city of Salvador, Bahia became the site of the battle between two different perceptions of black integration in the United States and of the place of Africa in this process. Franklin Frazier, the most famous black sociologist of the time, was locked into an argument with the equally famous, white, and Jewish anthropologist Melville Herskovits on the “origins” of the so-called black family. To make things even more complex, both centered their contention on fieldwork done among the same informants: the povo de santo (the members) of the same candomblé house of worship in Salvador. In between the two of them was linguist Lorenzo vibrant v.8 n.1 livio sansone Dow Turner. The article shows how transnational was the making of Afro- Brazilian studies and how important is a critical assessment of power relations in this international field of studies.
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title USA & Brazil in gantois power and the transnational origin of Afro-Brazilian studies
spellingShingle USA & Brazil in gantois power and the transnational origin of Afro-Brazilian studies
Sansone,Livio
Afro-Brazilians
Bahia
geo-politics
Africanism
black family
title_short USA & Brazil in gantois power and the transnational origin of Afro-Brazilian studies
title_full USA & Brazil in gantois power and the transnational origin of Afro-Brazilian studies
title_fullStr USA & Brazil in gantois power and the transnational origin of Afro-Brazilian studies
title_full_unstemmed USA & Brazil in gantois power and the transnational origin of Afro-Brazilian studies
title_sort USA & Brazil in gantois power and the transnational origin of Afro-Brazilian studies
author Sansone,Livio
author_facet Sansone,Livio
author_role author
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dc.subject.por.fl_str_mv Afro-Brazilians
Bahia
geo-politics
Africanism
black family
topic Afro-Brazilians
Bahia
geo-politics
Africanism
black family
description Between 1941 and 1943 the city of Salvador, Bahia became the site of the battle between two different perceptions of black integration in the United States and of the place of Africa in this process. Franklin Frazier, the most famous black sociologist of the time, was locked into an argument with the equally famous, white, and Jewish anthropologist Melville Herskovits on the “origins” of the so-called black family. To make things even more complex, both centered their contention on fieldwork done among the same informants: the povo de santo (the members) of the same candomblé house of worship in Salvador. In between the two of them was linguist Lorenzo vibrant v.8 n.1 livio sansone Dow Turner. The article shows how transnational was the making of Afro- Brazilian studies and how important is a critical assessment of power relations in this international field of studies.
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