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<div style="text-align: center;" class="style1"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span style="color: #ffff99;"><em>Nº -3 - Ano II - 30/01/2011</em></span></span></div>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="CENTER"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><strong>Foreword</strong></span></span></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="CENTER"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><em>Ana Flávia Magalhães Pinto, Eliane Cavalleiro e Tatiane Cosentino Rodrigues</em></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><br /></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span lang="en-US">Indeed, black women and men are subjects</span><span lang="en-US"> of knowledge! There is no doubt. Emphasizing this glad reality, we present the third<a href="http://www.abpn.org.br/Revista/index.php/edicoes/user/setLocale/en_US?source=%2FRevista%2Findex.php%2Fedicoes"> </a></span><span lang="en-US"><strong><a href="http://www.abpn.org.br/Revista/index.php/edicoes/user/setLocale/en_US?source=%2FRevista%2Findex.php%2Fedicoes">Journal of ABPN</a> </strong></span><span lang="en-US">issue. After a whole year of hard word, we have many reasons to celebrate and, further, evaluate our accomplishments and challenges for the project's maintenance.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span lang="en-US">Regarding the</span><span lang="en-US"> readers and this scientific journal receiving, the numbers are thrilling. The Magazine has about 8 thousand views from Americas, Africa and Europe. Each article has an average of 300 views made by Brazilian readers, but also from countries as United States, Portugal, France, Mexico, Colombia, Uruguay, Argentina, Mozambique, Senegal, Canada and Spain, among others.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span lang="en-US">The contribution given by Brazilian readers was crucial. However, we must recognize that numbers display an interlocution which is due to the dialog settled with several Diasporic scholars and also intellectuals from the African continent, among whom there are the ones who sent us articles to enrich and diversify the debate.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span lang="en-US">Therefore it seems a favourable scene to reaffirming </span><span lang="en-US"><strong>Journal of ABPN</strong></span><span lang="en-US">’s commitment to the construction of an epistemological critic from the reality and the knowledge's social organization. Thus, in this third number we aimed amplifying that interlocution between intellectuals within the Black Diaspora, regarding the writers geographic origins and also their fields and analytic approaches.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span lang="en-US">The first article, “Ancestral Afro-Equatorial Territories: a proposition for the exercise of territorial autonomy and collective rights”, by Jhon Antón Sánchez, brings a discussion over the recent experience lived by Afro-Equatorial people in their relation with the new plurinational State, as evoked on the 2008 Constitution. As this autonomy warranty is closely connected to political control over ancestral territories, Sánchez emphasizes the historical obstacles and the economic pressures that may endanger the implementation of new “territorial circumscription” Afro-Equatorial, the process core.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span lang="en-US">The connection between reconnaissance of collective rights to land and autonomy’s warranty is also a theme raised by Paula Balduino de Melo. On “Maroon Communities: transition from the condition of enslavement to free peasantry”, she reflects on the problems faced by individual person and black rural communities in order to constitute themselves as political subjects on the struggle for land reform in Brazil.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span lang="en-US">Arivaldo Santos Souza, by his turn, reclaim the institutional racism debate in Brazil − which has been using, above all, the British concept presented on Macpherson report − to propose a deepening to this question for the critic may go beyond assign the institutions responsibility, reaching the system of racist beliefs that proceeds them, as proposed by the original concept developed by 1960 intellectuals within Black Power movement. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span lang="en-US">The articles from Jaime Amparo-Alves and Claudia Mosquera Rosero-Labbé, so, illuminate Souza's </span><span lang="en-US">approach. On “Racial necropolitics: the spatial production of death in the city of São Paulo”, Amparo-Alves invokes empirical data to show the reign of a “death spatialization” dynamics on Brazilian biggest city, where the highest incidence of avoidable deaths and lethal violence points to the black contingent. Claudia Mosquera uses the recent celebrations of Colombian bicentennial Independence Day to question the citizenship limitations compelled to the Afro-Colombian, and she also points out the form of action taken by black social movements in Colombia, regarding the strategies to hit the demands settled along the last decades.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span lang="en-US">Reaching the historiography field, this issue offers two articles that share the interest on conflicts, adjustments and sociocultural re-elaboration experiences in African Diaspora. Washington Santos Nascimento develops his argumentation in “After May Thirteenth: representations of former slaves and their descendants in Vitória da Conquista, Bahia (1888-1930)”</span><span lang="en-US"> using criminal process, newspaper and memorialistic texts. The author brings attention both to the black presence on the local slave trade and to the racial conflicts in the post-abolition. The narrative still illuminates some paths from black individuals that allows distinguish strategies and ways settled by this subjects of knowledge to be and survive in a racialized society based on slavery. By its turn, in “Between Africa and Recife: interpretations of the chamba Cult” Valéria Gomes Costa presents a comparative study that aims to measure approximations and estrangements between the cultural practices noticed on Terreiro Santa Bárbara, from Nação Xambá, and those reproduced by chambas, an ethinic group that lives on Mapeo and Yeli, regions placed on Niger, Cameroon and Togo.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span lang="en-US">The Black Women Literature is another stressed topic to this issue. Miriam Alves</span><span lang="en-US"> and Francineide Santos Palmeira take different standpoints to present a critical review from literary production made by black women, and emphasize the importance of affirming this subject of speech neglected and silenced among the national literature canons. </span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span lang="en-US">The last essay highlights Education. Fernanda Santos, on </span><span lang="en-US">“Pedagogical Practices in Ethno-Racial Relations: Identity and Memory”, shows the results of an action-research made on an Youth and Adults Education class, on Niterói (Rio de Janeiro), that aimed to develop and share pedagogic practices oriented to the implementation of the Law 10.639/03.</span></span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span lang="en-US">As the essays, the set of books reviews also sought to consider the </span><span lang="en-US">Journal interest to reach diversity of themes. The critical texts gave attention to the following publications: </span><span lang="en-US"><em>Mocambos de Palmares: histórias e fontes (séc. </em></span><em>XVI-XIX)</em>, organized by the historian Flávio Gomes; <em>A Cosmovisão africana no Brasil – elementos para uma filosofia afrodescendente</em>, by Eduardo David de Oliveira; <em>A África deve unir-se</em>, by the Ghana thinker and politician Kwame Nkrumah; and <em>Os nove pentes d'África</em>, by Cidinha da Silva.</span></span></p>
<p class="western" style="text-indent: 1.25cm; margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 150%;" align="JUSTIFY"><span style="font-size: 10pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana,geneva;"><span lang="en-US">Wishing a great reading to all, we would like to thank the devoted work made by the members from the Editorial and Advisory Councils, as well as the work </span><span lang="en-US">of all referees, in their crucial contribution to the demanding task of analyzing and qualifying the submitted articles. Let us follow with our commitment to the possibility of continuous growth allowed by the contribution of everyone.</span></span></span></p>
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