After the official events, the party spills out onto the streets in every corner of the city. Rio Carnival is both rooted in European pagan traditions and Catholicism. It was originally a food ...

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ANTIGUA AND BARBUDAAt Fort James on the island of Antigua, the pink masks worn by troupes of clowns during Carnival may represent European colonizers. (During the 18th century, the British Royal ...

“Ramadan instead of carnival: the failure of the multicultural project,” writes Anna Diouf with the necessary irony. In cities across Europe, concrete bollards are intended to prevent cars ...

In Europe, however, it had been suppressed when ... The slaves found it even more amusing to use the confusion of carnival as an occasion for uprisings. Long after the slaves were emancipated ...

A Carnival parade in Rio de Janeiro will present the story of a trans woman nearly burned at the stake in the 16th century as a means to spotlight trans people’s struggle in Brazil, where more of them ...

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