These whirling women lead rituals during the syncretic Festival of the Divine Holy Spirit, a tradition in the northeastern Brazilian state of Maranhão. They’re here in São Paulo for one week (everything comes here). The elderly lady who opens the video is in her 80s! She was being possessed by the orixá, an African spirit […]
Dança das Caixeiras Maranhenses Read More
Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates’ PBS series Black in Latin America looks into the African element of Latin American societies and investigates both the accomplishments and disappointments of Afro-Latinos in Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Cuba, Brazil, Mexico, and Peru. In the second instalment of the series, he visits the largest of the Greater Antilles, sitting
Thoughts on Part Two of ‘Black in Latin America’: Cuba Read More
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From the AV Room: My City, Five Ways Read More
Dr. Henry Louis Gates, star professor of African-American studies at Harvard University, has just completed a four-part documentary on the African diaspora in Latin America – titled ‘Black in Latin America – that’s currently airing on PBS (last episode, tomorrow night). He’s visited Cuba, Haiti, the Dominican Republic, Brazil, Mexico and Peru to shed light
Thoughts on Part One of ‘Black in Latin America: Haiti & the DR’ Read More
• Everything is so clean. • Everything is so cheap. • There are indeed a few loud, obnoxious American douchebags. Conversely, most Americans are friendly, polite, and helpful. • Products come in too much unnecessary packaging. • The weather couldn’t be any more pleasant than in Northeast Florida in spring. • At 72, my mother
Thoughts of an American Expatriate After a Spur-of-the-Moment Weekend Trip Home Read More
