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UNISA996465411103316 |
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Advances in Computer Entertainment [[electronic resource] ] : 10th International Conference, ACE 2013, Boekelo, The Netherlands, November 12-15, 2013. Proceedings / / edited by Dennis Reidsma, Katayose Haruhiro, Anton Nijholt |
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Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2013 |
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[1st ed. 2013.] |
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1 online resource (XXVI, 668 p. 284 illus.) |
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Information Systems and Applications, incl. Internet/Web, and HCI ; ; 8253 |
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Application software |
User interfaces (Computer systems) |
Optical data processing |
Algorithms |
Computer communication systems |
Artificial intelligence |
Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet) |
User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction |
Computer Imaging, Vision, Pattern Recognition and Graphics |
Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity |
Computer Communication Networks |
Artificial Intelligence |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
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New devices -- Evaluation and user studies -- Games as interface to serious applications -- Creating immersion -- Interfaces -- New experiences -- Procedural approaches and AI -- Theory. |
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This book constitutes the refereed conference proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment, ACE 2013, held in Boekelo, The Netherlands, in November 2013. The 19 full paper and 16 short papers presented together 42 extended abstracts |
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were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 133 submissions in all categories. The papers cover topics across a wide spectrum of disciplines including new devices; evaluation and user studies; games as interface to serious applications; creating immersion; interfaces; new experiences; procedural approaches and AI; and theory. Focusing on all areas related to interactive entertainment they aim at stimulating discussion in the development of new and compelling entertainment computing and interactive art concepts and applications. |
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UNINA9910810334503321 |
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Gates Henry Louis |
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Black in Latin America / / Henry Louis Gates, Jr |
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New York, : New York University Press, c2011 |
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[1st ed.] |
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1 online resource (272 p.) |
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Blacks - Latin America - History |
Blacks - Race identity - Latin America |
Slavery - Latin America - History |
Latin America Civilization African influences |
Latin America Race relations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Brazil -- 2. Mexico -- 3. Peru -- 4. The Dominican Republic -- 5. Haiti -- 6. Cuba -- Appendix. Color Categories in Latin America -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Author |
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Selected as a 2012 Outstanding Title by AAUP University Press Books for Public and Secondary School Libraries12.5 million Africans were shipped to the New World during the Middle Passage. While just over 11.0 million survived the arduous journey, only about 450,000 of them arrived in the United States. The rest—over ten and a half million—were taken to the Caribbean and Latin America. This astonishing fact |
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changes our entire picture of the history of slavery in the Western hemisphere, and of its lasting cultural impact. These millions of Africans created new and vibrant cultures, magnificently compelling syntheses of various African, English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish influences. Despite their great numbers, the cultural and social worlds that they created remain largely unknown to most Americans, except for certain popular, cross-over musical forms. So Henry Louis Gates, Jr. set out on a quest to discover how Latin Americans of African descent live now, and how the countries of their acknowledge—or deny—their African past; how the fact of race and African ancestry play themselves out in the multicultural worlds of the Caribbean and Latin America. Starting with the slave experience and extending to the present, Gates unveils the history of the African presence in six Latin American countries—Brazil, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Haiti, Mexico, and Peru—through art, music, cuisine, dance, politics, and religion, but also the very palpable presence of anti-black racism that has sometimes sought to keep the black cultural presence from view. In Brazil, he delves behind the façade of Carnaval to discover how this ‘rainbow nation’ is waking up to its legacy as the world’s largest slave economy. In Cuba, he finds out how the culture, religion, politics and music of this island is inextricably linked to the huge amount of slave labor imported to produce its enormously profitable 19th century sugar industry, and how race and racism have fared since Fidel Castro’s Communist revolution in 1959.In Haiti, he tells the story of the birth of the first-ever black republic, and finds out how the slaves’s hard fought liberation over Napoleon Bonaparte’s French Empire became a double-edged sword. In Mexico and Peru, he explores the almost unknown history of the significant numbers of black people—far greater than the number brought to the United States—brought to these countries as early as the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the worlds of culture that their descendants have created in Vera Cruz on the Gulf of Mexico, the Costa Chica region on the Pacific, and in and around Lima, Peru. Professor Gates’ journey becomes ours as we are introduced to the faces and voices of the descendants of the Africans who created these worlds. He shows both the similarities and distinctions between these cultures, and how the New World manifestations are rooted in, but distinct from, their African antecedents. “Black in Latin America” is the third instalment of Gates’s documentary trilogy on the Black Experience in Africa, the United States, and in Latin America. In America Behind the Color Line, Professor Gates examined the fortunes of the black population of modern-day America. In Wonders of the African World, he embarked upon a series of journeys to reveal the history of African culture. Now, he brings that quest full-circle in an effort to discover how Africa and Europe combined to create the vibrant cultures of Latin America, with a rich legacy of thoughtful, articulate subjects whose stories are astonishingly moving and irresistibly compelling. |
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