... Afro-Brazilian Cachoeira Pelourinho postracial racial paradise ...

... global pop Afro-Brazilian Latin American politics black cultural politics music circulation ...

... relations. The chapter goes on to examine the widespread notion that Afro-Brazilians have been able to retain African traditions in ways that Black Americans have not. Through the close reading of travel narratives, analyses of ethnographic interviews with expatriates, and participant-observation of tours...

... Houston’s songs, and tangled currents of race and nation made a group of Afro-Brazilians return to Houston’s work at the turn to the twentieth century. Houston’s interpretations reveal the overlapping projects of U.S. and European empire, U.S. black cultural politics, Brazilian neoracial democracy...

... Rio de Janeiro to Paris and New York, hopes for racial uplift and unity inspired the African American performer and activist Etta Moten Barnett to play Houston’s songs, and tangled currents of race and nation made a group of Afro-Brazilians return to Houston’s work at the turn to the twentieth century...

... This chapter highlights some of the difficulties of an academic ethnography in the Pelourinho. It seeks to establish a position from which to represent the Afro-Brazilian women at the center of the story of the post–World War II Pelourinho without repeating the tension between pathologization...

..., and thus their importance to the nation as a political project. This struggle for everyday inclusion threatens to expand existing definitions of the Afro-Brazilian, the modern, and the moral even as middle- and upper-class Bahians continue to define themselves in opposition to the Pelourinho and to its...

... the allegedly “backward” states of the Brazilian Northeast as the source of disorder and the paulistas’ primary opponents, both during the war and after São Paulo’s defeat. constitutionalism Nordestino separatism racism civilization Getúlio Vargas Leaders and chroniclers...

...Mapping Movement Fields This chapter deals with the issue of autonomy and interdependency in the Brazilian associative tradition. Its point of departure is the debate on civil society autonomy as it was set up during the 1980s. The discussion moves beyond this debate by placing...

... that state attention to the past is coming to take on material meaning and become an idiom through which residents express their rights and concerns about the commodification of Afro-Bahian bodies. It also examines the ways that a people who have learned the extent to which history has become a manipulated...

... Chapter 1 focuses on Afro-Argentine swing guitarist Oscar Alemán, who leveraged his phenotypical blackness and his musical talent in order to build a career that took him from Brazil to Buenos Aires to Paris and back to the Argentine capital. Over the course of his career, Alemán performed...