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PRT106 in the Fall

REGISTER NOW for our next semester class: PRT106 ELEMENTARY PORTUGUESE II

PRT106-1000 (15244) – ALL CLASS SESSIONS ON ZOOM

Class hours: Tues/Thurs, 10:00 – 11:40 am
Lab hour: Thurs, 12-12:50 pm

I can’t wait to work with you again in the fall!
Vamos que vamos!!

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Scholarships available!

Please check this list of scholarships available at BMCC and apply today!
In particular see the BMCC Foundation, INC grants, deadline April 21st!

I am more than happy to write letters of recommendation for anyone’s application. Boa sorte!

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Brazil Event @ Graduate Center Apr 11

African Territoriality & the Politics of Cultural Heritage in Brazil
Thursday, April 11, 5 PM
Room 9205, The Graduate Center, CUNY
365 Fifth Ave, Manhattan (x 34th St)
From the 1980s onward, leaders of the Afro-Brazilian religion Candomblé successfully adapted federal and state cultural heritage laws to protect historic temples and gain select land use rights as part of the (re)construction of a multiracial Brazilian democracy. State technicians and anthropologists in dialogue with religious leaders defined African territoriality in Brazilian cultural heritage policies through sometimes conflicting principles of race, gender, and history. Black priestesses were fundamental to this process, leading their communities toward greater public respect, representation, and protection through political negotiation. This talk draws on historical and ethnographic research to argue that the adaptation of cultural heritage status to historic temples defined Black women’s leadership as a central feature of African heritage in Brazil, while leaving the widespread issues of land insecurity and religious and environmental racism unexamined. The Candomblé religion depends on healthy and sustainable material relationships to the land and community. Religious racism, land speculation, economic precarity, and environmental destruction continue to marginalize Candomblé temples and their leaders in Brazil despite nominal celebration by the state.
Jamie Lee Andreson (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Institute for Research on the African Diaspora in the Americas and the Caribbean (IRADAC) at the CUNY Graduate Center. Dr. Anderson is also an assistant teaching professor of History and Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. Her research focuses on the politics of race and gender in the Candomblé religion of Brazil through ethnographic and historical methods. She is currently finishing her book manuscript, Divine Femininities: Matriarchy and African Heritage in Brazil, which centers Black priestesses as major architects of the Brazilian multi-racial democracy. Her previous publications include a Portuguese-language book published with Editora UFBA in 2019 and an article in the Journal of Africana Religions, which this talk is based on. Her research has received funding from Fulbright-Hays and the Ruth Landes Memorial Fund, as well as a previous postdoctoral fellowship with the Africana Research Center (ARC) at Penn State.

Moderator: John Collins, Queens College, CUNY
TO REGISTER, send e-mail bildner@gc.cuny.edu
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Women’s Day Events

I hope you can enjoy these events!
1. Live music at Drom (East Village / Alphabet City) — note this is a ticketed event, not free
2. Virtual event through Harvard University — register here for link
3. Women’s Day event at Brazilian Consulate (Midtown) — RSVP here
4. Live music at Hunter College (CUNY) — check out our friends at Hunter!

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Carnaval Events

Here are a few Brazilian carnaval events going on this weekend and the next few weeks. Any of these would count for your cultural event for the semester. Please note some of them are paid events and/or places where you might have to buy food. Do not feel pressure to go if this is an issue, there will be plenty of free events to choose from.