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Black Diaspora

Selections from the LADI Repository

October 30, 2020

BY DAVID A. BLISS THE LATIN AMERICAN DIGITAL INITIATIVES (LADI) website holds archival collections from six of the Benson’s post-custodial archival partner organizations in Latin America. Beginning in 2014, Benson archivists worked with partner institutions to digitize and describe collections … [Read more...] about Selections from the LADI Repository

Tagged With: Black Diaspora, Human Rights, LADI, Latin American Digital Initiatives, LLILAS Benson, post-custodial archives

Staff Pick: Black Freedom Struggle and the University

October 30, 2020

The John L. Warfield Papers BY ZARIA EL-FIL Freedom has long been theorized in university spaces as a matter of intellectual engagement. Historically, Black freedom organizing has taken place at the collegiate level through research that throws white western conceptions of world order into … [Read more...] about Staff Pick: Black Freedom Struggle and the University

Tagged With: activism, African and African Diaspora Studies, Archives, Benson Latin American Collection, Black Diaspora Archive, Black Studies, Blackprint, John L. Warfield, Zaria El-Fil

Voices of Black Brazilian Feminism: Conversations with Rosana Paulino and Sueli Carneiro

October 28, 2020

EDITED & TRANSLATED by SUSANNA SHARPE THE 2020 LOZANO LONG CONFERENCE, “Black Women’s Intellectual Contributions to the Americas: Perspectives from the Global South,” held February 20–21, 2020, was a groundbreaking gathering of Black women scholars, activists, intellectuals, and artists from … [Read more...] about Voices of Black Brazilian Feminism: Conversations with Rosana Paulino and Sueli Carneiro

Tagged With: Black Brazil, Black Brazilian feminism, Black feminism, Christen A. Smith, Cite Black Women, LLILAS Benson, Lorraine Leu, Lozano Long Conference, Rosana Paulino, Sueli Carneiro, Susanna Sharpe

Faculty Spotlight: Sandro Sessarego

August 20, 2019

BY SUSANNA SHARPE WE DON'T OFTEN STOP TO THINK about why we speak the way we speak, or how some of our linguistic habits came to be. But this is one of the things linguists like Sandro Sessarego pay great attention to. Sessarego (pronounced seh-SAH-re-go), associate professor in the Department of … [Read more...] about Faculty Spotlight: Sandro Sessarego

Tagged With: Afro-Bolivians, Afro-Hispanic languages, Bolivia, contact languages, Sandro Sessarego, slavery in the Americas

Cover Photographer: Adeloyá Magnoni

August 20, 2019

Adeloyá Magnoni is a photographer-activist who uses an anthropological lens to give voice and visibility to diverse sexualities, genders, Afro-religious traditions, social identities, and ethnicities. She is a practitioner of Candomblé—a daughter of Exu and Yansã—bisexual, antiracist, and an … [Read more...] about Cover Photographer: Adeloyá Magnoni

Tagged With: Adeloyá Magnoni, Afro-Brazilians, Candomblé, salvador da bahia

Reconceptualizing Trans-Centered Research in 21st-Century Brazil

August 20, 2019

BY JOSHUA REASON FOR DAY OF THE DEAD LAST YEAR, toward the end of my Fulbright research in Salvador da Bahia, I attended “Elas Não Morreram” (They Did Not Die), a drag show commemorating the five-year anniversary of Coletivo das Liliths, an LGBTQI1 theater collective I had become acquainted with … [Read more...] about Reconceptualizing Trans-Centered Research in 21st-Century Brazil

Tagged With: Brazil, Joshua Reason, LGBTQI, LGBTT, LLILAS Benson, salvador da bahia, trans, transgender, travesti

The Quilombo Activists’ Archive: A Transcontinental Partnership

August 20, 2019

BY EDWARD SHORE CARLITOS DA SILVA was an activist and community leader from São Pedro, one of 88 settlements founded by descendants of escaped slaves known in Portuguese as quilombos, located in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil’s Ribeira Valley (Vale da Ribeira). During the early 1980s, amid an … [Read more...] about The Quilombo Activists’ Archive: A Transcontinental Partnership

Tagged With: Black Diaspora, Black Diaspora Archive, Edward Shore, land rights, LLILAS Benson, post-custodial archives, quilombolas, quilombos, Vale do Ribeira Brazil

Interview: Alessandro de Oliveira dos Santos

August 27, 2018

Social psychologist Alessandro de Oliveira dos Santos works with people and communities pushed to the brink by economic, social, and environmental forces beyond their control. He taught the graduate seminar Environmental Racism and Struggles for Recognition among People of the Amazon Forest in … [Read more...] about Interview: Alessandro de Oliveira dos Santos

Tagged With: Alessandro de Oliveira dos Santos, Amazon forest, Brazilian Amazon, environmental racism, Latin America environment

Establishing History: The Black Diaspora Archive and the Texas Domestic Slave Trade Project

August 24, 2017

BY RACHEL E. WINSTON The vision for the Black Diaspora Archive at The University of Texas at Austin came into focus in 2013 as a collaborative project between Black Studies, LLILAS Benson, and the University of Texas Libraries. After years of continued successful collaboration, Black Studies … [Read more...] about Establishing History: The Black Diaspora Archive and the Texas Domestic Slave Trade Project

Tagged With: Black Diaspora, Black history, slavery, Texas Domestic Slave Trade, Texas history

Brazilian Roças: A Legacy in Peril

August 24, 2017

BY EDWARD SHORE Vanessa de França is a farmer and activist from São Pedro, one of 88 quilombos, rural black communities descended from fugitive slaves, that call the Atlantic forest of São Paulo state and neighboring Paraná their home. Two hundred years ago, de França’s ancestors escaped the gold … [Read more...] about Brazilian Roças: A Legacy in Peril

Tagged With: land rights, maroon communities, Quilombo, race in Brazil, sustainable agriculture

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