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...Sabastiao do Rio de Janeiro, a modern cathedral built in 1960 that looks like a huge brown traffic cone. Inside, the pews are semicircular in shape, radiating from the center like wooden ripples from a stone thrown in a pond. In the 1800s, despite the supression of Afro-Brazilian religions, followers of such faiths would secretly worship West African deities during Roman Catholic rites. For example, someone might act as if they were praying to the Virgin Mary when they were really praying to Iemanja, the goddess of the sea. The tour guide doesn't tell us any of this...
...look at Cristo Redentor I think of Catedral de Sao Sebastiao and then all those Afro-Brazilian worshipers thinking about their own gods during Christian ceremonies. I wonder if it's possible, just possible, to come to Rock in Rio, to worship at the temple of the Gods of Pop, and really be praying to wilder, more radical spirits. Or if this whole Rock in Rio thing is just another big piece of unredeemable commercial crapola and we are all going to hell anyway...
...regarded the undergraduate protests of the time--against the war in Vietnam, the presence of ROTC on campus and Harvard's lack of an Afro-American Studies...
Hailing from Littleton, Colo., Baer concentrated jointly in social studies and in Afro-American studies. He was a member of Phi Beta Kappa and was named a Truman Scholar...
...just a way of doing things. It's been an inseparable part of America in the 20th century, but it will really achieve its greatest height in the 21st or 22nd Century. There was tremendous resistance to it in the 20th Ccntury because its greatest jazz artists were Afro-American. Now that resistance is fading away, because it's not as important as it was then to keep those people down...