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    Copa_do_Mundo_postcolonialist

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    A Weird World Cup in the Land where Soccer is Everything

    Author: Derek Pardue

    Brazilian rapper Emicida, one of the most creative and perceptive pop artists in recent years, creates compelling drama in not only the content of what he says but also the[...]

    Copa_do_Mundo_postcolonialist

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Tem algo esquisito nesta Copa do Mundo, mas talvez não o que você pensa

    Author: Derek Pardue

    O rapper brasileiro Emicida, um dos artistas mais criativos e perceptivos nos últimos tempos, cria drama não somente nas suas letras mas também na dinâmica da sua voz. Na música[...]

    stuart-hall-2

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    A Brazilian Take on the Writings of Stuart Hall

    Author: Leandro Belinaso Guimarães

    This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by Negarra Akili Kudumu, editor. … I think that anyone seriously engaged in cultural studies, as intellectual practice,[...]

    stuart-hall-2

    Civil Discourse · Culture · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Meus primeiros encontros com textos de Stuart Hall

    Author: Leandro Belinaso Guimarães

    … penso que qualquer pessoa que se envolva seriamente nos estudos culturais como prática intelectual deve sentir, na pele, sua transitoriedade, sua insubstancialidade, o pouco que consegue registrar, o pouco[...]

    DFace-2-featured

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    The Revitalizing Power of Urban Art: The Case of Santurce, Puerto Rico

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by the author.   Santurce is an area that boasts a varied cultural and artistic scene. Formerly known[...]

    Colectivo Basta-featured

    Arts · Creative · Culture · Featured

    El arte urbano y su poder revitalizador: el caso de Santurce, Puerto Rico

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    Santurce es un área que cuenta con una escena artística y cultural variada. Antiguamente un municipio por derecho propio conocido como San Mateo de Cangrejos, hoy día es un barrio[...]

    Brasileiros(2)

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    “Whitening” and Whitewashing: Postcolonial Brazil is not an Egalitarian “Rainbow Nation”

    Author: Sarah Lempp

    To commemorate the 500th anniversary of its “discovery” by Portuguese sailor Alvares de Cabral in 2000, Brazil officially presented itself as a “rainbow nation” without discrimination or racism; a place[...]

    Public-Humanities

    Arts · Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    The Public Humanities and Academe: A Letter from the Editor of The Postcolonialist

    Author: Editor-in-Chief, Lara Dotson-Renta

    It is no longer possible to ignore the need for public and accessible avenues of discourse and debate. As the university model becomes further aligned with a corporate vision of[...]

    AcademieFrancaise

    Arts · Featured · Magazine

    Dialectic of Immortality: Situating the Election of Dany Laferrière to the Académie Française

    Author: Clint Bruce

    This article is a translation of a previous post on The Postcolonialist. Translation provided by Addie Leak, a freelance translator based in France.   Moreover, the idea itself of classifying writers[...]

    OscarLopezRivera

    Civil Discourse · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Oscar López Rivera, Nelson Mandela, and U. S. Colonialism (English)

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    (Articulo en español) Oscar López Rivera is a freedom fighter for the independence of Puerto Rico. He has the unenviable distinction of being the longest-held Puerto Rican political prisoner in[...]

    Oscar Lopez Rivera

    Civil Discourse · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Oscar López Rivera, Nelson Mandela y el colonialismo de los Estados Unidos (Español)

    Author: Ángel L. Carrión Maymí

    Photo Credit:  © Lara Dotson-Renta, 2013 (San Juan, Puerto Rico) (Article in English) Oscar López Rivera es un luchador por la independencia de Puerto Rico. Tiene la distinción nada envidiable[...]

    AcademieFrancaise

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Dialectique de l’immortalité: Pour situer l’élection de Dany Laferrière à l’Académie française

    Author: Clint Bruce

    [L]’idée même de classer les écrivains par langue est déjà pour moi une idée assez provinciale. Je ne suis pas un écrivain de langue française, ni francophone, je suis un[...]

    Dany-Laffiere-2

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Entrevue avec Dany Laferrière, récemment élu à l’Académie française (Interview with Dany Laferrière, recently elected to the Académie française)

    Author: Pénélope Cormier

    Recently elected to the Académie française,  Dany Laferrière is a Haitian and Canadian novelist and journalist. The Postcolonialist editor Pénélope Cormier interviewed him on October 10, 2013, just before his candidacy was announced. An English translation of the interview[...]

    Juan De Los Muertos

    Arts · Featured · Magazine

    Terror y horror en el cine contemporáneo del Caribe

    Author: Sandra Casanova-Vizcaíno, PhD

    Una masa casi indefinible de cuerpos en descomposición cubre el fondo del Océano Atlántico y se extiende a lo largo de las noventa millas entre La Habana y Miami. Ya[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Global Perspectives

    A balança comercial do agronegócio brasileiro e a questão fundiária

    Author: Newton Narciso Gomes Junior, Raimundo Pires Silva, and Erica Ramos Andrade

    Introdução A última década, situada em um contexto internacional favorável, de protagonismo do capital financeiro, de alta demanda por recursos naturais e commodities agrícolas (das quais o país é grande[...]

    Paulo Friere

    Culture · Featured · Global Perspectives · Magazine

    Afetos, educação ambiental e política: Encontros com Nita e Paulo Freire.

    Author: Marcos Reigota

    Em ensaio sobre os encontros e desencontros da vida cotidiana, Margaret Chillemi observa que os encontros afetuosos são como devires carregados de potências que nos tornam mais fortes e resistentes[...]

    LasKrudas

    Arts · Culture · Featured · Magazine

    Hip hop cubano: entrevista con Las Krudas

    Author: Lara Dotson-Renta, PhD

    Krudas Cubensi (Las Krudas) son un grupo de rap formado en Cuba durante la década de los 90 con tres integrantes: Odaymara Cuesta, Olivia Prendes, y Odalys Cuesta (conocida como[...]

    Academic Dispatches · Global Perspectives

    Desigualdades sociais e saúde no Brasil

    Author: Ionara Magalhães de Souza & Edna Maria de Araújo

    Temos uma sociedade desigual, que se adaptou a esse padrão de desigualdade e dele se serve e a partir dele se reproduz (THEODORO, 2008, p.81). O Brasil é um país[...]

    Gonzales-1

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts

    Poética de un yo mutilado: Identidad y cuerpo en la serie “Ofrendas” de Andrés González.

    Author: Guillermo Severiche

    ¡Oh innoble servidumbre de amar seres humanos, y la más innoble que es amarse a sí mismo! “Contra Jaime Gil de Biedma” Jaime Gil de Biedma El mito de Narciso[...]

    Vivant-Art-Collection

    Arts · Culture · Magazine

    Haitian Art in the United States: An Interview with Florcy Morisset

    Author: V. Shayne Frederick

    Florcy Morisset is the founder and curator of Vivant Art Collection, a Philadelphia-based art gallery dedicated to displaying and promoting Haitian and other Caribbean art in the United States. Haiti,[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Arts

    Écrire l’hybridité d’Haïti autour de la figure du roi Christophe, dans Le Royaume de ce monde de Carpentier et La Tragédie du roi Christophe de Césaire

    Author: Cyrielle Dodet

    In cultural, literary and postcolonial studies, hybridity, syncretism, creolization, métissage have become common tropes. (…) if everything is hybrid, what does hybridity mean? Hence the next question to come up[...]

    Academic Journal · Academic Journal: November 2013 (Issue: Vol. 1, Number 1) · Civil Discourse · Global Perspectives

    Histórias & Resistências: Famílias, sexualidades e juventudes no Movimento dos Sem Teto da Bahia

    Author: Helaine Pereira de Souza & Vanessa Ribeiro Simon Cavalcanti

    Las mujeres no solamente habrán de aportar relevante apoyo (para la construcción social), sino que han de tener un papel protagonista. (Asunción Miura, 2008.) Qual a influência de gravidez(es) que[...]

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