07 October 2020
By Millicent Accardi Of Portuguese descent, Almeida was born in Connecticut and moved to New York in 1984, where shortly after he began studying textile design at The Fashion Institute of Technology. Currently, he continues to work as a visual artist, primarily in mixed-media and ceramics (tiles and mosaics), free-lancing as a textile designer, an […]
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26 September 2020
The Portuguese Minister of Foreign Affairs, Augusto Santos Silva, warned the United States Ambassador in Lisbon, George Glass, that the decision-making process in Portugal belongs with the Portuguese Government and will not abide by US pressures. The head of Portugal’s diplomacy reacted to statements by the United States Ambassador who, in an interview with the […]
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24 September 2020
By Soni Wadhwa Philosopher Martin Heidegger once wrote about the conquest of the world as a picture while discussing the photographs as records of time “captured” through the camera. Though he was talking about photographs, the same could be said of all images in general, especially, paintings. A 16th century watercolour labelled “The Bengalis” from […]
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17 September 2020
Andre is a rich landowner, while Mário is an immigrant college student. Although from different backgrounds, they both come to America to learn how to overcome economic underdevelopment in their own countries. Sadly, they discover that the American economic system perpetuates conditions of poverty for many while others become unreasonably rich, leaving behind a trail […]
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17 September 2020
When Guinean Muslims leave their homeland, they encounter radically new versions of Islam and new approaches to religion more generally. In Remaking Islam in African Portugal, Michelle C. Johnson explores the religious lives of these migrants in the context of diaspora. Since Islam arrived in West Africa centuries ago, Muslims in this region have long conflated […]
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14 September 2020
According to The New York Times, some European-Americans, including Portuguese Americans, are to be designated as non-white. The non-white label appeared in an article titled Faces of Power, listing the 922 most powerful elite in the United States. The list includes dozens of “non-white” faces, from political figures, entrepreneurs, to leaders of the political factions, […]
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