part of the Retratos do Brasil Negro series. Nascimento suffered from diabetes and died on 23 May 2011, in Rio de Janeiro, due to cardiac arrest. Selected publications "Africans in Brazil: a Pan-African perspective" (1997) "Orixás: os deuses vivos da Africa" (Orishas: the living gods of Africa in Brazil) (1995) "Race and ethnicity in Latin America – African culture in Brazilian art" (1994) "Brazil, mixture or massacre? Essays in the genocide of a Black people" (1989) "Sortilege" (black mystery) (1978) "Racial Democracy in Brazil, Myth or Reality?: A Dossier of Brazilian Racism" (1977) Filmography Cinema de Preto (2005) Cinco vezes Favela (1962) Terra da Perdição (1962) Homem do Sputnik, O (1959) References External links Joseph A. Page (1995), The Brazilians. Da Capo Press. . Abdias do Nascimento; The Only Brazilian That I'm Proud Of! (biography) Biography IPEAFRO site on Nascimento 1914 births 2011 deaths Brazilian artists Brazilian male actors Brazilian nationalists Brazilian politicians of African descent Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Brazil) from Rio de Janeiro (state) Members of the Federal Senate (Brazil) Brazilian pan-Africanists People from Franca Yale University faculty University at Buffalo faculty Academic staff of Obafemi Awolowo University Afro-Brazilian people