Lusophone Africa
Author: Fernando Arenas
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 081666983X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSituates the cultures of Portuguese-speaking Africa within the postcolonial, global era.
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World Music: Africa, Europe and the Middle East
Author: Simon Broughton
Publisher: Rough Guides
Published: 1999
Total Pages: 792
ISBN-13: 9781858286358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFirst published in 1994 in one volume. An A-Z of the music, musicians and discs. 2006 edition available as an e-book.
Transnational Archipelago
Author: Luís Batalha
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Published: 2008
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9053569944
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The island nation of Cape Verde has given rise to a diaspora that spans the four continents of the Atlantic Ocean. Migration has been essential to the island since the birth of its nation. This volume makes a significant contribution to the study of international migration and transnationalism by exploring the Cape Verdean diaspora through its geographic diversity and with a broad thematic range"--Publisher's description.
The Making of the Cape Verdean
Author: Manuel E. Costa Sr.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Published: 2011-05-20
Total Pages: 339
ISBN-13: 1463401361
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Making of the Cape Verdean is a book written about Cape Verdeans who migrated from the Cape Verde Islands in the late 1800's to the 1970's to New Bedford Massachusetts. The book is based on the historical facts about the Portuguese colonization of the Cape Verde islands and its people located off the West Coast of Africa. The author provides the history of colonization under Portuguese rule of Salazar and how the Cape Verdean people survived famine, imprisonment, torture, politcal unrest and the abandonment of the Portuguese government. In addition, the author gives you a voyeuristic view of what life was like growing up in the Cape Verdean community in New Bedford after they migrated to the United States. This book is a powerful recap of of Cape Verdeans from this period and location. There is no other documentation that captures the Cape Verdeans the way "The Making of the Cape Verdean" does in this book.
Cape Verdean Blues
Author: Shauna Barbosa
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2018-04-07
Total Pages: 87
ISBN-13: 082298329X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe speaker in Cape Verdean Blues is an oracle walking down the street. Shauna Barbosa interrogates encounters and the weight of their space. Grounded in bodily experience and the phenomenology of femininity, this collection provides a sense of Cape Verdean identity. It uniquely captures the essence of “Sodade,” as it refers to the Cape Verdean American experience, and also the nostalgia and self-reflection one navigates through relationships lived, lost, and imagined. And its layers of unusual imagery and sound hold the reader in their grip.
Cabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution
Author: Terza A. Silva Lima-Neves
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 2021-05-11
Total Pages: 277
ISBN-13: 1793634904
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCabo Verdean Women Writing Remembrance, Resistance, and Revolution: Kriolas Poderozas documents the work and stories told by Cabo Verdean women to refocus the narratives about Cabo Verde on Cabo Verdean women and their experiences. The contributors examine their own experiences, the history of Cabo Verde, and Cabo Verdean diaspora to highlight the commonalities that exist among all women of African descent, such as sexual and domestic violence and media objectification, as well as the different meanings these commonalities can hold in local contexts. Through exploring the literary and musical contributions of Cabo Verdean women, the Cabo Verdean state and its transnational relations, food and cooking traditions, migration and diaspora, and the oral histories of Cabo Verde, the contributors analyze themes of community, race, sexuality, migration, gender, and tradition.
Cape Verde, Let's Go
Author: Derek Pardue
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2015-11-15
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0252097769
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMusicians rapping in kriolu--a hybrid of Portuguese and West African languages spoken in Cape Verde--have recently emerged from Lisbon's periphery. They popularize the struggles with identity and belonging among young people in a Cape Verdean immigrant community that shares not only the kriolu language but its culture and history. Drawing on fieldwork and archival research in Portugal and Cape Verde, Derek Pardue introduces Lisbon's kriolu rap scene and its role in challenging metropolitan Portuguese identities. Pardue demonstrates that Cape Verde, while relatively small within the Portuguese diaspora, offers valuable lessons about the politics of experience and social agency within a postcolonial context that remains poorly understood. As he argues, knowing more about both Cape Verdeans and the Portuguese invites clearer assessments of the relationship between the experience and policies of migration. That in turn allows us to better gauge citizenship as a balance of individual achievement and cultural ascription. Deftly shifting from domestic to public spaces and from social media to ethnographic theory, Pardue describes an overlooked phenomenon transforming Portugal, one sure to have parallels in former colonial powers across twenty-first-century Europe.
Between Race and Ethnicity
Author: Marilyn Halter
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: 2022-10-17
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0252054423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArriving in New England first as crew members of whaling vessels, Afro-Portuguese immigrants from Cape Verde later came as permanent settlers and took work in the cranberry industry, on the docks, and as domestic workers. Marilyn Halter combines oral history with analyses of ships' records to chart the history and adaptation patterns of the Cape Verdean Americans. Though identifying themselves in ethnic terms, Cape Verdeans found that their African-European ancestry led their new society to view them as a racial group. Halter emphasizes racial and ethnic identity formation to show how Cape Verdeans set themselves apart from the African Americans while attempting to shrug off white society's exclusionary tactics. She also contrasts rural life on the bogs of Cape Cod with New Bedford’s urban community to reveal the ways immigrants established their own social and religious groups as they strove to maintain their Crioulo customs.
Folk-lore from the Cape Verde Islands ...
Author: Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons
Publisher:
Published: 1923
Total Pages: 288
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Madwoman of Serrano
Author: Dina Salústio
Publisher: SCB Distributors
Published: 2020-04-20
Total Pages: 170
ISBN-13: 1912868318
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe first novel by a female author to be published in Cape Verde, and the first to be translated into English, The Madwoman of Serrano is a magical tale of rural ideals and urban ambition, underpinned by an exploration of female empowerment. Serrano is an isolated village where a madwoman roams. But is she really mad or is she marginalised because she is wise and a woman? Could her babbling be prophecy? One day a girl falls from the sky and is found in the forest by Jeronimo. The villagers are suspicious of the newcomer, but Jeronimo falls in love with her. When she gives birth and disappears, Jeronimo takes care of the child, naming her Filipa. Years later, estranged from Jeronimo after being taken from the village in mysterious circumstances, Filipa is a successful businesswoman in the city. Her memories of growing up in Serrano and her friendship with the madwoman become increasingly vivid. When the madwoman's warnings come true and Serrano's sheltered existence is threatened by plans to build a dam, Jeronimo heads for the city himself. Will he and Filipa finally be reunited?
