"O evangelho nao pode ficar dentro de 4 paredes, ele tem que ultrapassar fronteiras".Daniela ZeidanFROM CONSCIOUSNESS TO ACTIONThe embrace of the narratives I have outlined here were frequently associated, I found, with other, more politicized views about what ought to be done collectively by evangelical Christians to improve the lives of Afro-Brazilians. Among the Black gospel artists I got to know, fully three quarters expressed strong agreement with one or more of the following: the need to develop a Black Christian theology; the desirability of creating a church with Black leadership; the importance of getting the church to teach Black history and nurture Black sel-esteem; the need for churches to advocate race-based afirmative action; and the desirability of black Christians to make purchases from black-owned busines Furthermore, as the Black evangelical movement in Brazil continues to grow, Black gospel artists seem to be playing an increasingly important role in shaping and directing it. Between 2002 and 2005, I tracked three groups of black gospel singers who organized evening study groups in witch they discussed the interconnections between the Bible, social history, and slave resistence. Every year one church that is home to a major black gospel choir hosts a major teach-in about the connection between black music and the civil rights movement in the US. Several networks of black gospel singers created web-pages devoted to Blacks in the Bible and Black heroes. The Pao da Vida church, home of several black gospel singing groups, regularly organizes educational forums on racism, Black in the church, and buying from Black-owned businesses. In 2007 and 2008, leading black gospel singers could be found in the forefront in organizing the annual march for Black consciousness in Sao Paulo. Sergio Mello, a singer of gospel blues who built a church around a Black choir, used his pulpit to proclaim the virtues of afirmative action, the valorization of Black beauty, support for Black entrepreneurs, and nurturance of Black leadership. In the fall of 2005, he led a march of evangelicals to a downtown mail in Sao Paulo to protest the racially-motivated discrimination against a black musician. The minister of music of Pao de Vida, Daniela Zeidan, increasingly appears in inter-organizational forums to speak out about the need of evangelical Christians to take a stand against racism.Music & Arts in Action -Collective Identity and Racial Thought in Sao Paulo's Black Gospel Music SceneJOHN SAMUEL BURDICKDepartment of Anthropology Syracuse University USAMusic and Arts in Action/John samuel Burdick 2009 ISSN:1754-7105 Page 23-24Music and Arts in Action www.musicandartsinaction.net/saopaulogospel A familia representa um grupo social primario que influencia e e influenciado por outras pessoas e instituicoes. E um grupo de pessoas, ou um numero de grupos domesticos ligados por descendencia (demonstrada ou estipulada) a partir de um ancestral comum, matrimonio ou adocao. Nesse sentido o termo confunde-se com cla. Dentro de uma familia existe sempre algum grau de parentesco. Membros de uma familia costumam compartilhar do mesmo sobrenome, herdado dos ascendentes diretos. A familia e unida por multiplos lacos capazes de manter os membros moralmente, materialmente e reciprocamente durante uma vida e durante