Recuperação do Sobrado Carvalho

Neste trabalho, por meio de uma metodologia analítica, procurou-se encontrar uma solução na recuperação de um edifício que se encontra em mau estado de conservação, localizado no centro histórico da capital de Cabo Verde, Praia, mais precisamente no Platô, zona mais antiga da cidade. Realizou-se uma análise histórica da cidade e do edifício a fim de o enquadrar no espaço e no tempo, bem como na malha urbana aonde se insere. Foram identificadas as patologias do edifício e apresentadas as soluções a fim de o recuperar, mantendo a traça original e utilizando o menos possível materiais novos. Surgiu então a proposta de recuperação cuja preocupação foi de utilizar alguns materiais existentes, dando os devidos tratamentos. A função ao qual destina o edifício também mantém-se a da original: no rés do chão são espaços comerciais e no 1º andar uma pensão de carácter temporária. As contribuições deste trabalho visam servir de exemplo no que diz respeito a recuperação de edifícios antigos em centros históricos, a fim de se preservar o edificado construído, mantendo a imagem da cidade uniformizada e de preservar a herança cultural deixada pelos colonizadores portugueses.

Racial Stereotypes in Fictions of Slavery: Uncle Tom´s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe and O Escravo by José Evaristo D’ Almeida

Most stereotypes about Africans and their descendants started with colonialism in the fifteenth century. The encounter between Africans and Europeans facilitated the creation of myths and stereotypes about the colonized peoples, which were made effective through the naturalization of differences. The relationship between skin color and slavery developed to produce a racialized system of forced labor on which colonialism depended for its survival. Stereotypes functioned to legitimize colonial authority by building the notion that the colonizer ruled over the colonized because of an innate superiority. Therefore, stereotyping is an effective "discursive strategy" (Bhabha) based on fixity and repetition with the aim of controlling the other. Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin and José Evaristo D’Almeida O Escravo both denounced the evils of slavery in the United States of America and Cape Verde respectively, claiming for the end of the institution. However, they are both ambivalent towards slaves and blacks, being unable to envisage social equality for the two races. Both authors construct their black characters as stereotypical others, but they depict the light-skin characters as superior both culturally and physically. The bi-racial characters are portrayed as the ones who possess beauty and intelligence as an inheritance from their European ancestry, while blacks are relegated to the margins. We need to consider, however, that slavery in Cape Verde had different characteristics from its counterpart in the United States of America. In Cape Verde the Africans outnumbered the Europeans and that circumstance favored miscegenation and the emergence of forms of mixed culture, which came to be seen as positive and natural. In the United States of America miscegenation was regarded as a taboo since early. And even after Emancipation, “the one-drop rule” made the offspring of an African descendant black, however 'white' he or she might be.

Entre Nós : entrevista a Germano Almeida

Entrevista de Raquel Santos ao escritor cabo-verdiano Germano Almeida.