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

By Cheryl Sterling

Book Overview

This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candombl? 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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349436224
• ISBN13: 9781349436224
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"