URU - 2012 - #032 - SERIE - AFRO-URUGUAYAN PERSONALITIES, VIRGINIA BRINDIS DE SALAS

Uruguay - 2012 - Afro-Uruguayan Personalities, Virginia Brindis de Salas

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SERIE --- 1,10 EUR
FDC not Sent --- 2,20 EUR
FDC Sent on First Day --- 8,00 EUR
COVER Sent on First Day --- 6,00 EUR

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Issue information:

Country: Uruguay
Date: October 31th, 2012
Printed: 15.000 copies

Stamp Shape and Size: Rectangular [27 mm. x 39 mm.]
Perforation: Circular
Gum: Water Activated

Block Configuration: 25 stamps [5 x 5]
Block Shape and Size: Rectangular [Unknown Size]

FDC Type: Normal
FDC not sent Shape and Size: Rectangular [165 mm. x 105 mm.]
Cover Shape and Size: Rectangular [221 mm. x 161 mm.]

Catalogue information:

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Ivert: No Data Available
Scott: No Data Available
Stanley & Gibbons: No Data Available

Topics:

Issue:

This stamp commemorates the presence of African descent people in Uruguayan Personalities, and focuses in the poetess and activist "Virginia Brindis de Salas".

This serie follows the two other ones issued on previous year, 2011, with Africand descent topic, because that year was proclaimed as "International Year for People of African Descent" by United Nations. Although this secuence suggest that there will be issued more series of African descent personalities, it is not confirmed yet its continuity.

Virginia Brindis de Salas was born in Montevideo in 1908, and passed away at the age of 50 years, in Montevideo too, on year 1958.

It was an activist, writter, and poetess, the first afro-american woman in Southamerica to publish a poetry book.

Contributed actively in the newspaper "Nuestra raza", in english "Our race", along with Pilar Barrios, another Afro-Uruguayan writer and activist, militant Native Black Party (PAN)..

Probably the collections of poetry, "Marimorena", published in 1946, and "Cien cárceles de amor", in english "A Hundred prisions of love", released in 1949, are his internationally best-known works.

In fact, the chilean writer Gabriela Mistral acknowledged its influence throughout the Americas, including it impact in the city of Los Angeles, where his poetry contributed to the Afro-american movement.

The "Partido Autóctono Negro", abbreviated as "PAN", and translated in english as "Black Native Party" was a political party in Uruguay seeking to defend the rights of the Afro-Uruguayan community.

The founders of the party were Afro-Uruguayan intellectuals whom sought to develop the party as a platform to elect Afro-Uruguayans to Congress.

The party was founded in 1936 and was close to the Nuestra Raza group.

The foundation of PAN followed the establishment of two other Black political parties in Latin America, in Cuba (1908) and Brazil (1931).

A first reference of the project to launch a Black political party can be found in the October 24, 1935 issue of Nuestra Raza. The following issues of the journal carried more editorials and articles arguing for the foundation of the party. On May 9, 1936 a preliminary assembly of the party was held. Some thirty people participated in the event. Two preparatory bodies were named, a Reporting Committee and a Provisional Board. On May 23, 1936 the manifesto of the party (drafted by the Reporting Committee) was adopted at a party meeting. The manifesto of the party was formulated along Popular Front lines, calling for struggle against fascism and imperialism.

The design of the single stamp of the serie shows a work of the also Afro-Uruguayan artist "Mary Porto Casas", in which it is seen Virginia Brindis de Salas reading a book sitting on a sofa.

Mary Porto Casas, whose complete name is "María Esther Porto Casas" was born in Montevideo on December 22, 1960, and at a young age begins his first works in drawing and painting.

She took courses of Graphic advertising at the School of Applied Arts "Pedro Figari", getting there first prize with the creation of a logo for "Administración de Ferrocarriles del Estado (AFE)", the Goverment Railway Administration.

He also worked for the Church of Montevideo "St. Madeleine Sophie Barbat" (biblical themes).

Then, invited by "Junta Departamental de Montevideo", the Departmental Board of Montevideo, integrates with other painters an exhibition to honor the Afro-Uruguayans.

Also, for several years, holds a permanent exhibition in the "Mercado Central “Mundo Afro”", and in "Asociación Cultural Social Uruguay Negro (ACSUN)", two uruguayan Social and Cultural Association of afro-american people.

And provided his drawings for the book "Los Tambores del Candombe", in englis "Candombe drums" of Luis Ferreira and the cover of the book "Yeninyanya" of Oscar Montaño.

FDC:

The Cancelation of the FDC shows in his design two african women, one holding a baby, and the other behind staring at the little child.

The scene is nice for maternity and motherhood collections, and also for traditional costumes, or wider clothes ones.

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