Afro-Brazilians
Subtitle: cultural production in a racial democracy
By: Niyi Afolabi.
Series: Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora -- 39
Publisher: University of Rochester Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Rochester, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9781580462624
Subjects: Democracy -- Brazil; Africans -- Brazil; Racism -- Brazil; Africans -- Brazil -- Ethnic identity; Brazil -- Civilization -- African influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Two faces of racial democracy; title: Quilombhoje as a cultural collective; title: Beyond the curtains : unveiling Afro-Brazilian women writers; title: (Un)broken linkages; title: The tropicalist legacy of Gilberto Gil; title: Afro-Brazilian carnival; title: Film and fragmentation; title: Ancestrality and the dynamics of Afro-modernity; title: The forerunners of Afro-modernity; title: (Un)transgressed tradition; title: Ancestrality, memory, and citizenship; title: Quilombo without frontiers; title: Ancestral motherhood of Leci Brandão.