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Abdias do Nascimento was a Brazilian politician, writer, poet, and playwright. He was a leader in the struggle for the rights of Afro-Brazilians and a pioneer in the Pan-African movement. He was a founder of the Black Experimental Theater, the first black theater in Brazil, and the Black Movement of Brazil. He was also a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro and the University of Brasília.
Nascimento was born in Franca, São Paulo, Brazil, to a family of African descent. He was the son of a former slave and a former slave owner. He attended the University of São Paulo, where he studied law and philosophy. He was a member of the Brazilian Communist Party and was active in the struggle for the rights of Afro-Brazilians.
Nascimento was a prolific writer and poet, and his works include plays, novels, and essays. He wrote extensively about the history and culture of Afro-Brazilians, and his works were translated into several languages. He was also a leader in the Pan-African movement, and he was a founding member of the Black Experimental Theater.
Nascimento was awarded the National Order of Scientific Merit in 2002, and he was posthumously awarded the Order of Rio Branco in 2008. He died in 2011 at the age of 97.
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Abdias do Nascimento |
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97 years old |
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14 March, 1914 |
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14 March |
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Franca, São Paulo, Brazil |
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May 23, 2011 |
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil |
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Brazil |
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Who Is Abdias do Nascimento's Wife?
His wife is Léa Garcia (1951–1958)
Isabel Barros (circa. 1970 - ?)
Elisa (Elizabeth) Larkin Nascimento (1975–2011)
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Léa Garcia (1951–1958)
Isabel Barros (circa. 1970 - ?)
Elisa (Elizabeth) Larkin Nascimento (1975–2011) |
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Osiris Larkin Nascimento, Henrique Cristóvão Garcia do Nascimento, Abdias do Nascimento Filho |
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Nascimento suffered from diabetes and died on 23 May 2011, in Rio de Janeiro, due to cardiac arrest.
Nascimento returned to Brazil in 1983 and was elected to the federal Chamber of Deputies as a member of the Democratic Labor Party (PDT). There, his focus was supporting legislation to address racial problems. In 1994 he was elected to the Senate and served until 1999. In 2004 he was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Peace. A biography of Nascimento by the journalist Sandra Almada was published in 2009 as part of the Retratos do Brasil Negro series.
Nascimento became a leader in Brazil's black movement, and was forced into exile by the military regime in 1968. From 1968 to 1981 Nascimento was very active in the international Pan-African Movement and was elected Vice-President and Coordinator of the Third Congress of Black Culture in the Americas. For the next decade Nascimento was a visiting professor at several universities in the United States, including the Yale School of Drama (1969–1971), and University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he founded the chair in African Cultures in the New World, Puerto Rican Studies Program in 1971. He held the position of Professor Emeritus at SUNY-Buffalo. Nascimento also taught at the University of Ife (now Obafemi Awolowo University) in Nigeria.
He was an actor, known for Terra da Perdição (1962), Cinco vezes Favela (1962) and O Homem do Sputnik (1959).
From 1939 to 1941, Nascimento traveled throughout South America with a group of poets who called themselves the "Santa Hermandad Orquidea", or "Holy Brotherhood of the Orchid." At the Municipal Theater of Lima, Peru, they attended a performance of Eugene O'Neill's play The Emperor Jones with a blackfaced white actor in the leading role. Then and there, he decided to create a black theater in Brazil to fight against racism. In Argentina, Nascimento spent a year with the "Teatro del Pueblo" (People's Theater) in Buenos Aires, where he learned the technical and performance aspects of theater. Returning to São Paulo, he was imprisoned, having been convicted in absentia by the civilian court for the same incident of resisting racial discrimination for which he had been excluded from the Army. While in prison at the Carandiru Penitentiary, he created the Convict's Theater, in which prisoners wrote, directed, and performed in their own plays and musical productions. When released, Nascimento moved to Rio de Janeiro, where he founded the Black Experimental Theater (Teatro Experimental do Negro, TEN) in 1944. TEN premiered on May 8, 1945 with a production of O'Neill's The Emperor Jones, surprising skeptical critics with a presentation that was highly acclaimed for its technical and dramatic effectiveness. With intense activity in theatrical production, TEN also was responsible for stellar initiatives in black activism, such as the National Convention of Brazilian Blacks (1945–46), the Conference of Brazilian Blacks (1949), and the First Congress of Brazilian Blacks (1950). A resolution of the 1950 congress advocated the need for a Black Arts Museum in Brazil, and the Black Experimental Theater embraced the project. Many artists donated works and the first exhibition was held in 1968 at Rio de Janeiro's Museu da Imagem e do Som (Museum of Image and Sound). The Black Experimental Theater organized the cast for the play Orfeu da Conceição, by Vinicius de Moraes, which was later adapted into the motion picture Black Orpheus, directed by Marcel Camus.
Born in Franca, São Paulo state, Nascimento attended public school as a child and joined the military in 1929. In the 1930's Nascimento was a member of the Brazilian Integralist Action, a fascist party. He received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Rio de Janeiro in 1938, and graduate degrees from the Higher Institute of Brazilian Studies (1957) and the Oceanography Institute (1961).
Abdias do Nascimento was born on March 14, 1914 in Sao Paulo, Brazil.