2 Image-inations of Blackness

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Agradecimientos vii
4. Illustrations xi
5. 1 Semiotics of Race and History 1
6. 2 Image-inations of Blackness 45
7. 3 Bodies in Motion: Routes of Blackness in the Carnivalesque 88
8. 4 Voices: Chronotopic Registers and Historical Imagination in Cuban Folk Religious Rituals 145
9. 5 Pride: Singing Black History in the Carabalí Cabildos 175
10. 6 Performance: State-Sponsored Folklore Spectacles of Blackness as History 219
11. 7 Brutology: The Enregisterment of Bozal, from “Blackface” Theater to Spirit Possession 257
12. Notes 291
13. References Cited 303
14. Index 321