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Brazil AfroBrazilians

May 2008

For Brazil, Brazilian, afrobrazilians, afrobrazilian, racism, race, human rights, politics, political, citizenship, public policy, inequality, equality, welfare, social exclusion, poverty, black, blacks, gender, analysis, research, publications, data, studies, surveys, statistics

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2005 Atlas Racial Brasileiro, UNDP-United Nations Development Programme (in Portuguese)

Brazil’s Black Civil Rights Activists Achieving Overdue Policy Reform, Dayanne Mikevis & Matthew Flynn, Citizen Action in the Americas Series, No. 17, Americas Program, International Relations Center, April 2005

Quotas in Brazilian Public Universities: Good or Bad Idea? Eduardo Andrade, working paper no. 303, UnB-Universidade de Brasilia, 15 August 2003

Not black, not White: Just the Opposite. Culture, Race and National Identity in Brazil, Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, working paper no. 47, Centre for Brazilian Studies, University of Oxford, 2003

Fact and Myth: Discovering a Racial Problem in Brazil, Thomas E. Skidmore, working paper no. 173, Kellogg Institute, University of Notre Dame, April 1992

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Gender
  • Casa de Cultura da Mulher Negra: domestic violence, education, racism
  • Criola: health, labour market, politics; contains articles and other publications
  • Geledés-Instituto da Mulher Negra: news, network, research and studies, links, forum
  • Maria Mulher–Organização de Mulheres Negras: health, politics, racism; contains publications and news
  • Mulheres Negras do Umbigo para o Mundo: interviews, politics and culture, publications (partial access)

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Culture
  • Biblioteca Comboniana Afro-Brasileira: searchable library from Salvador; history, culture, religion
  • CIDAN-Centro Brasileiro de Informação e Documentação do Artista Negro: with news
  • Olodum: ngo from Bahia; music and educational project
  • Portal Palmares: linked to the Ministry of Culture; news, studies and articles on culture and politics
  • Quilomb Hoje: literature, essays, poetry, fiction

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E-Media

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Brazilian Academia & Research Institutes

  • CEERT-Centro de Estudos das Relações de Trabalho e Desigualdades; focuses on racial issues in the labour market and general public policy
  • IPEA-Instituto de Pesquisa Econômica e Aplicada: papers and studies on racial issues
  • UDESC-Universidade do Estado de Santa Catarina: see portal Multiculturalismo (history and education)
  • UERJ-Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro: Políticas da Côr- Laboratorio de Politicas Públicas; public policy, papers and bibliography
  • UFBA-Universidade Federal da Bahia: CEAO-Centro de Estudos Afro-Orientais; Afro-Ásia journal (access to past issues)
  • Universidade Cândido Mendes: CEAA-Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiáticos; Estudos Afro-Asiáticos journal (access via Scielo-Scientific Electronic Library Online)
  • USP-Universidade de São Paulo: see CPPPN-Comissão Permanente de Poíticas Públicas para a População Negra; Núcleo de Consciência Negra

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International Sources

  • ASWAD-Association for the Study of the Worldwide African Diaspora: world network
  • Beyond Racism: network, cross-country studies (Brazil, South Africa and USA); publications, documents, reports; Portuguese and English
  • Global Mappings-A Political Atlas of the African Diaspora: Northwestern University, The Institute of Disasporic Studies
  • My African Diaspora: news, information and network

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Contributors: Helen Ashley (United Kingdom), Margaret Mwazuwa (South Africa)

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