Mapping the nineteenth-century Brazilian returnee movement: Demographics, life stories and the question of slavery

Castillo, Lisa Earl

doi:10.1080/14788810.2015.1110677

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“…Yet, the return of Afro-Brazilians began at least 40 years earlier, between 1820 and 1899 (Bascom et al, 2005(Bascom et al, , cited in T_ eriba, 2017. Still, during the period preceding the return of Afro-Brazilians, their resistance was manifested through several recorded instances of revolt including the uprising of 'Malê Rebelion' in Salvador in 1935 (Reis, 1993;Castillo, 2016). This resistance was pursued even by the unreturned Afro-Brazilians who decided to be 'full free, which could only be won through struggle' (Bulter, 1998).…”

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Decolonizing Modern Heritage of Africa: Afro‐Brazilian and Neo‐Moorish Liberation Architectures

Kelouaze

2022

Curator The Museum Journal

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This article examines modern architectures in Africa that express ideas of liberation. It aims to rethink narratives and re-evaluate perceptions through a reading of liberation architectures that are born out of popular resistance movements, revealing of voices for liberation, and representing cultural responses to political pressure from oppressed populations. Two cases are studied. The first concerns pre-liberation architectures in early 19th century Algeria that emerged when popular resistance provoked the colonial administration to facilitate the creation of the neo-Moorish style as a way of allowing the autochthonous to identify themselves within the city through a new architecture inspired by precolonial architecture. The second case study is about post-liberation architectures using Afro-Brazilian architecture initiated by returned formerly enslaved people (Lagos/Benin), reflecting their freedom to reflect on their shifting identities and complex associations between their lives lived in both lands across the Atlantic Ocean. Both examples challenge notions of authenticity and recognition. Neo-Moorish is perceived as a fake mix of two dissociated architectures; Afro-Brazilian is regarded as imported and less authentic than local architectures. Yet the authenticity of both architectures lies in the political and cultural context and motivation underlying their creation: Afro-Brazilians who returned to where they were captured and enslaved to create masterpieces, and Algerians who forced the colonizer to make a unique cultural compromise to appease the population, created two forms of liberation architecture of undeniable authenticity.

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Decolonizing Modern Heritage of Africa: Afro‐Brazilian and Neo‐Moorish Liberation Architectures

Kelouaze

2022

Curator The Museum Journal

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“…Celles-ci étaient pour la plupart créoles (c'est-à-dire, « nées au Brésil »), parfois métisses (mulâtres) 8 . Il ne s'agissait pas toujours d'expulsion à proprement parler, mais aussi d'une recherche de meilleures conditions de vie hors d'un Brésil qui avait durci ses lois et ses rapports avec les Africains affranchis (Castillo 2016). Phénomène historique et sociologique important, leur retour en Afrique a été l'occasion pour certains anciens esclaves de venir grossir les rangs de la communauté des marchands négriers qui formaient alors la première couche historique des Agudàs.…”

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“…Sur la biographie des affranchis retournés, voirVerger 1992 ;Castillo 2011Castillo , 2016 Castillo & Parés 2015, 2018 …”

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Esclavage, créolisation et constitution des identités en Afrique de l’Ouest : le cas des Agudàs du Bénin

Lempereur¹,

Athayde²

2019

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Les Agudàs forment une communauté aux origines afro-brésiliennes née dans le sillage de l'esclavage atlantique mais aussi domestique. Cet article montre comment l'identité de cette communauté est multiple et parfois paradoxale, et comment elle évolue en fonction du statut des personnes, de leurs histoires familiales et des conceptions de l'époque (mondialisation, revendications identitaires post-coloniales,etc.). Il met principalement en avant deux assises de cette construction identitaire : le lien avec la bourian, mascarade d'origine brésilienne, et le rapport à l'esclavage.

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The Longue Durée of Brazil-Africa Relations (c. 1450–1960)

Marques

Krause

2020

Brazil-Africa Relations in the 21st Century

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Mapping the nineteenth-century Brazilian returnee movement: Demographics, life stories and the question of slavery

Cited by 14 publications

References 12 publications

Decolonizing Modern Heritage of Africa: Afro‐Brazilian and Neo‐Moorish Liberation Architectures

Decolonizing Modern Heritage of Africa: Afro‐Brazilian and Neo‐Moorish Liberation Architectures

Esclavage, créolisation et constitution des identités en Afrique de l’Ouest : le cas des Agudàs du Bénin

The Longue Durée of Brazil-Africa Relations (c. 1450–1960)

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