Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Notes on Yoruba Orthography viii
4. Preface ix
5. Acknowledgments xi
6. Introduction: Negotiating Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy 1
7. 1 Two Faces of Racial Democracy 22
8. 2 Quilombhoje as a Cultural Collective 51
9. 3 Beyond the Curtains: Unveiling Afro-Brazilian Women Writers 80
10. 4 (Un)Broken Linkages 108
11. 5 The Tropicalist Legacy of Gilberto Gil 127
12. 6 Afro-Brazilian Carnival 151
13. 7 Film and Fragmentation 169
14. 8 Ancestrality and the Dynamics of Afro-Modernity 193
15. 9 The Forerunners of Afro-Modernity 207
16. 10 (Un)Transgressed Tradition 239
17. 11 Ancestrality, Memory, and Citizenship 267
18. 12 Quilombo without Frontiers 302
19. 13 Ancestral Motherhood of Leci Brandão 357
20. Conclusion: The Future of Afro-Brazilian Cultural Production 376
21. Notes 381
22. Bibliography 397
23. Index 417