Reminder for Tuesday!
From: Forum on Migration [mailto:migrationforum@barnard.edu]
Sent: Friday, March 22, 2013 2:11 PM
To: migration1-list@barnard.edu
Subject: TUESDAY, MARCH 26 - 6PM: AFRICA IN BRAZIL
Barnard's Forum on Migration and
Columbia's Center for Brazilian Studies present
MULTICULTURAL BRAZIL LECTURE SERIES, SPRING 2013
AFRICA IN BRAZIL
João J. Reis, Universidade Federal da Bahia
TUESDAY, MARCH 26, 2013, 6pm
Barnard College
Sulzberger Parlor, 3rd Floor
3009 Broadway at W. 117th Street
New York, NY
Africans represent the single largest group of arrivals in Brazil. This talk discusses their ethnic origins, geographical distribution after arrival and contribution to the formation of a national culture. It then focuses on the experience of the Yoruba and other arrivals from the Bight of Benin in Bahia, their main destination in Brazil.
João J. Reis is Professor of History at the Universidade Federal da Bahia. He is the author of Slave Rebellion in Brazil: The Muslim Uprising of 1835 in Bahia and Death is a Festival: Funeral Rites and Rebellion in Nineteenth-Century Brazil, among other works.
For more information, visit barnard.edu/fom.
THIS EVENT IS FREE, OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, AND FOLLOWED BY A RECEPTION
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