African heritage and memories of slavery in Brazil and the South Atlantic world /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors:	Araujo, Ana Lucia (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Amherst, New York : Cambria Press, [2015]
Series:	Cambria studies in slavery series.
Subjects:	Slavery > Brazil > History. Blacks > Brazil > History. Blacks > Brazil > Social conditions.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: wounded pasts: memory of slavery and African heritage in Brazil / Ana Lucia Araujo
Collectionism and colonialism: the Africana collection at Brazil's National Museum (Rio de Janeiro) / Mariza de Carvalho Soares
Race and visual representation: Louis Agassiz and Hermann Burmeister / Maria Helena Machado
Counter-witnessing the visual culture of Brazilian slavery / Matthew Francis Rarey
Angola in Brazil: the formation of Angoleiro identity in Bahia / Matthias Röhrig Assunção
Memories of captivity and freedom in São José da Serra jongo festivals: cultural heritage and Black identity (1888-2011) / Martha Abreu and Hebe Mattos
From public amnesia to public memory: re-discovering slavery heritage in Rio de Janeiro / André Cicalo
Uncomfortable pasts: talking about slavery in Angola / Marcia C. Schenck and Mariana P. Candido
"Bahia is a closer Africa": Brazilian slavery and heritage in African American roots tourism / Patricia de Santana Pinho
Preserving African art, history, and memory: the Afrobrazil Museum / Kimberly Cleveland
The legacy of slavery in contemporary Brazil / Myrian Sepúlveda dos Santos.