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This book offers a new perspective on the making of Afro-Brazilian, African-American and African studies through the interrelated trajectory of E. Franklin Frazier, Lorenzo Dow Turner, Frances and Melville Herskovits in Brazil. The book compares the style, network and agenda of these different and yet somehow converging scholars, and relates them to the Brazilian intellectual context, especially Bahia, which showed in those days much less density and organization than the US equivalent. It is therefore a double comparison: between four Americans and between Americans and scholars based in Brazil

Las experiencias y los proyectos inspirados por el multiculturalismo y las políticas de acción afirmativa alcanzaron en Brasil su momento de gloria en el periodo 2002-2016, en el marco de una etapa identitaria centrada en la valorización, la patrimonialización y el reconocimiento de formas culturales subalternas, asociadas con grandes sectores de la sociedad históricamente discriminados. Pero algunos nuevos puntos de inflexión han llevado el proceso a una situación de crisis, generada tanto por debilidades internas como por una peligrosa arremetida conservadora. (Livio Sansone, Nueva Sociedad)

Las experiencias y los proyectos inspirados por el multiculturalismo y las políticas de acción afirmativa alcanzaron en Brasil su momento de gloria en el periodo 2002-2016, en el marco de una etapa identitaria centrada en la valorización, la patrimonialización y el reconocimiento de formas culturales subalternas, asociadas con grandes sectores de la sociedad históricamente discriminados. Pero algunos nuevos puntos de inflexión han llevado el proceso a una situación de crisis, generada tanto por debilidades internas como por una peligrosa arremetida conservadora. (Livio Sansone, Nueva Sociedad)

Os estudos africanos têm uma história profundamente política no Brasil, que mostra que aqui, como em outros contextos, estudar a África não e' algo "natural", mas o resultado de bastante engenharia social e intelectual. Este artigo analisa a originalidade dos estudos africanos no Brasil, se comparado com o Norte global, e trata de uma série de desafios e entraves que derivam da fragilidade institucional destes estudos e do clima político adverso na maior parte dos países do Brics – Brasil, África do Sul e Índia. Na última parte o artigo apresenta uma série de novos caminhos que podem ser trilhados para o desenvolvimento e a consolidação da conexão Sul-Sul nos estudos africanos realizados no Brasil.

African studies have had a profoundly political history in Brazil that shows that in this country, such as elsewhere, studying Africa is not a natural fact, but depends on political, geostrategic and economic interests as well as quite a degree of intellectual engineering. This article explores the originality of African studies in Brazil when compared with the Global North and addresses a set of challenges and bottlenecks that derive form the institutional fragility of such studies and the present adverse political climate in most of the Brics countries – Brazil, South Africa and India. In the last part the article expands on new paths that should be trailed for the development and consolidation of the South-South connection in African studies as seen from Brazil. ; Los estudios africanos han tenido una historia profundamente política en Brasil que muestra que en este país, como en otros lugares, estudiar África no es un hecho natural, sino que depende de intereses políticos, geoestratégicos y económicos, así como de un alto grado de ingeniería intelectual. Este artículo explora la originalidad de los estudios africanos en Brasil cuando se compara con el Norte Global y aborda un conjunto de desafíos y cuellos de botella que derivan de la fragilidad institucional de tales estudios y el clima político adverso actual en la mayoría de los países Brics: Brasil, Sudáfrica y la India En la última parte, el artículo se expande en nuevos caminos que deben seguirse para el desarrollo y la consolidación de la conexión Sur-Sur en los estudios africanos como se ve desde Brasil. ; Os estudos africanos têm uma história profundamente política no Brasil, que mostra que aqui, como em outros contextos, estudar a África não e' algo "natural", mas o resultado de bastante engenharia social e intelectual. Este artigo analisa a originalidade dos estudos africanos no Brasil, se comparado com o Norte global, e trata de uma série de desafios e entraves que derivam da fragilidade institucional destes estudos e do clima político adverso na maior parte dos países do Brics – Brasil, África do Sul e Índia. Na última parte o artigo apresenta uma série de novos caminhos que podem ser trilhados para o desenvolvimento e a consolidação da conexão Sul-Sul nos estudos africanos realizados no Brasil.

The category ethnic identity acquired popularity in the Eighties and Nineties,and since the late Nineties has made inroads in Brazil as well as in the rest ofLatina America. The notion of multiculturalism followed the example, fi rst inpart of the Global North and little by little in our region as from the decade of2000. Here I analyse the sudden rise of popularity of multiculturalism in Braziland the rapid crisis it got into over the last few years, also on account of the rise of a new stock of an extreme right-wing populism.Keywords: Identity, multiculturalism, cultural policies, inequalities.

Focusing on his life and academic production, especially the long eleven years that he spent in the United States, in this text I explore the complex relation between the first President of the Mozambique Liberation Front Eduardo Mondlane and the social sciences - the academic world of sociology and anthropology. I do so through an analysis of the correspondence between Mondlane and several social scientists, especially Melville Herskovits, the mentor for his master's and doctoral degrees in sociology, and Marvin Harris, who followed his famous study of race relations in Brazil with research in Lourenço Marques in 1958 on the system of social and race relations produced under Portuguese colonialism. My main argument is that his academic training bore on Mondlane's political style more than normally assumed in most biographical accounts.

Historically subaltern groups envisage new possibilities for the creation of community museums and exhibits. This seems to be particularly true of the Global South and, even more so, of Sub-Saharan Africa and the African diaspora to Southern America - two regions of the world where, when it concerns ethno-racial minorities and social movements, presential museums and "actual" archives have more often than not been poorly funded, ill-equipped, and underscored. This article teases out the process of creating such a digital museum that focuses on African and Afro-Brazilian heritage. It is a technological and political experiment that is being developed in a country experiencing a process of rediscovery and of the patrimonialization of a set of elements of popular culture, within which "Africa" as a trope has moved from being generally considered a historical onus to (Western-oriented) progress to become a bonus for a country that is discovering itself both multiculturally and as part of the powerful group of BRIC nations.