African Roots, Brazilian Rites

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.

• identity
• national identity
• ritual
• transformation
• latin american politics

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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