Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts
Showing posts with label culture. Show all posts

Thursday, May 5, 2011

BLACK IN LATIN AMERICA: BRAZIL, CUBA, DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, HAITI, PERU AND MEXICO

In case you missed Parts 1-3 they are posted here.  All are around 50 minutes long.  Enjoy.  We also added our commentary under the vids.

Henry Louis Gates, Jr. uncovers Latin America's African roots in this four-part series. Black in Latin America is a quest to discover how Africa and Europe combined to create the vibrant cultures of Latin America, with a rich legacy of thoughtful, articulate subjects whose stories are astonishingly moving and irresistibly compelling.

Full Episode: Brazil: A Racial Paradise?   In Brazil, Professor Gates delves behind the façade of Carnival to discover how this ‘rainbow nation’ is waking up to its legacy as the world’s largest slave economy.  

We live in Salvador da Bahia in Brazil.  That show was pretty on point.  I get tired of hearing people who have never even been here talk like experts about how Brazilians consider themselves all these different

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