African Roots, Brazilian Rites: Cultural and National Identity in Brazil

by C. Sterling

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137009999
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	09/06/2012
Edition description:	2012
Pages:	260
Product dimensions:	5.70(w) x 8.60(h) x 0.80(d)

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements vii

Introduction: What Roots? Which Routes? 1

Chapter 1 Where Is Africa in the Nation? History as Transformative Praxis 15

Chapter 2 Ritual Encounters and Performative Moments 51

Chapter 3 From Candomblé to Carnaval: Secularizing Africa and Visualizing Blackness 87

Chapter 4 Aesthetically Black: The Articulation of Blackness in the Black Arts Movement and Quilombhoje 109

Chapter 5 Performing Bodies Performing Blackness Performing Self: The Quest for a Transformative Poiesis 145

Chapter 6 Centering Blackness: Hip-Hop and the Outing of Marginality 173

Conclusion Uma Luta que Nos Transcende 205

Notes 213

Bibliography 229

Index 253