Black Brazil : culture, identity, and social mobilization / edited by Larry Crook and Randal Johnson.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Race and politics in Brazil / Benedita da Silva -- The black movement: without identity there is no consciousness or struggle / Thereza Santos -- Where are the blacks? / Antonio Pitanga -- Olodum and the black struggle in Brazil / Joäao Jorge Santos Rodrigues -- Candomblâe and community / Maria Josâe do Espâirito Santo Franøca -- Perspectives on race and class in Brazil / Carlos Hasenbalg -- Blacks in Salvador: racial paths / Jeferson Bacelar -- Africa-Brazil: "ex Africa semper aliquid novi"? Anani Dzidzienyo -- Art history, agency, and identity: Yoráubâa transcultural currents in the making of black Brazil / Henry John Drewal -- Black Brazil: African notes on a new negritude / Femi Ojo-Ade -- Candomblâe in Bahia: repression and resistance / Jâulio Braga -- Power, invention, and the politics of race: Umbanda past and future / Diana DeG. Brown -- The fall of a black prophet: Pentecostalism and the rhetoric of race in urban Brazil / John Burdick -- Carnival: the colors of change / Antonio Risâerio -- The multiplicity of black identities in Brazilian popular music / Josâe Jorge de Carvalho -- The rise of Bumba-meu-Boi in Maranhao: resilience of African-Brazilian cultural identity / Kazadi wa Mukuna -- The flash of spirit: cinematic representations of Afro-Brazilian religion / Robert Stam -- The drama of modernity: color and symbolic exclusion in the Brazilian telenovela / Denise Ferreira da Silva -- The representation of blacks on commercial television in Brazil: some cultivation effects / Michael Leslie.