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African Roots, Brazilian Rites: Cultural and National Identity in Brazil 2012th Edition
Author(s): C. Sterling (Author)
- Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date: 6 Sept. 2012
- Edition: 2012th
- Language: English
- Print length: 267 pages
- ISBN-10: 1137009993
- ISBN-13: 9781137009999
Book Description
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.
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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.
