As a result of technological advancements, today man is completely dependent on the internet for all of his requirements. The internet has a power to allowed man to have everything while seated in one location, such as social networking, online purchasing, online education, and online employment, among other things.

Cybercrime, which includes…[Read more]

En el presente informe de lectura hablaremos sobre la importancia de la agroecología como disciplina que busca comprender los principios ecológicos de los sistemas agrícolas tradicionales y promover el desarrollo sostenible de los agroecosistemas. Se menciona que las prácticas agroindustriales intensivas han generado una crisis ecológica a nive…[Read more]

Luiz Gama’s poem ‘No Álbum do meu Amigo J.A. da Silva’ from the collection Primeiras Trovas Burlescas de Getulino (1859, 1861) is formulated as an extended recusatio in response to a friend’s request for a song. In this way, Gama apologizes for his inability to compose refined poems given his circumstances (he is poor and he is black). In this non…[Read more]

In Mário de Andrade’s novel Macunaíma, the eponymous hero is born ‘deep in the forest,’ ‘ink-black’ (retinto), and ugly. Macunaíma’s blackness becomes synonymous with ugliness, just as he becomes beautiful when he becomes white. This paper juxtaposes the circumstances of Macunaíma’s birth, the impression of the surrounding nature on his mother at…[Read more]

This book chapter treats of the appropriation of Greco-Roman classical material in the works of two Brazilian authors. One is Domício Proença Filho, a contemporary Afro-Brazilian poet, the other, Luís Câmara Cascudo, an ethnographer and folklorist writing during the first half of the twentieth century.

This article is an examination and discussion of the history of the term “Roma Negra” as a reference to the state of Bahia in Brazil, with implications for the study of trans-historical comparative slavery and the role of religion in the lives of the enslaved both in Bahia and in ancient Rome.