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African Roots, Brazilian Rites

Cultural and National Identity in Brazil

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  • © 2012

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  1. Cheryl Sterling
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Table of contents (8 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: What Roots? Which Routes?

    • Cheryl Sterling
    Pages 1-13

  3. Where Is Africa in the Nation? History as Transformative Praxis

    • Cheryl Sterling
    Pages 15-50

  4. Ritual Encounters and Performative Moments

    • Cheryl Sterling
    Pages 51-86

  5. From Candomblé to Carnaval: Secularizing Africa and Visualizing Blackness

    • Cheryl Sterling
    Pages 87-108

  6. Aesthetically Black: The Articulation of Blackness in the Black Arts Movement and Quilombhoje

    • Cheryl Sterling
    Pages 109-144

  7. Performing Bodies Performing Blackness Performing Self: The Quest for a Transformative Poiesis

    • Cheryl Sterling
    Pages 145-172

  8. Centering Blackness: Hip-Hop and the Outing of Marginality

    • Cheryl Sterling
    Pages 173-203

  9. Conclusion: Uma Luta que Nos Transcende

    • Cheryl Sterling
    Pages 205-211

  10. Back Matter

    Pages 213-260
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This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomblé and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences from US-based perspectives, through the vectors of public rituals, carnival, drama, poetry, and hip hop.

About the author

CHERYL STERLING teaches African and African Diaspora studies in the Liberal Studies Program at New York University, USA. She is a Fulbright Scholar and is also the co-founder and editor of the on-line arts journal, AfroBeat Journal.

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