Salvador de Bahia: Pelourinho as Inclusive Heritage
“Bom dia, moço! Todo bem? Bem-vindo à Bahia!” three enthusiastic women, one of them dressed as a typical Baiana, greeted me warmly at the tourism office at Salvador de Bahia in…
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Country: Brazil
Multi-Faith Lives of Brazilian Congadeiros and Umbandistas
I stood outside of the small chapel, pointing my video camera through the grates of the window. Inside, the devotees of the religious group Moçambique Thirteenth of May of Our…
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Delirious Consumption: Aesthetics and Consumer Capitalism in Mexico and Brazil
Sergio Delgado’s brilliant book, Delirious Consumption, performs a truly radical feat of locating anti-capitalist resistance precisely in the heart of the beast, in consumer culture…
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Afro-Latin America by the Numbers
Where did the all-encompassing term “Afro-Latin America” come from? While “Afro-Cuban,” “Afro-Brazilian” and other national terms were invented in the rst half of the 1900s, the broad…
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Getting Respect
When I first arrived in Brazil in the 1980s, I quickly learned that race in Brazil was not important there. The country that once had by far the largest slave population in the…
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