SOUTH AMERICA
The People of the River: Nature and Identity in Black Amazonia, 1835–1945
In this history of the black peasants of Amazonia, Oscar de la Torre focuses on the experience of African-descended people navigating the transitio…
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YORUBA
Afro-Brazilian Numerology: Awakening Your Better Self with the Wisdom of the Orishas
A complete guide to working with the Birth Odus of your Orishas Birth Chart • Offers step-by-step instructions to calculate your Birth Odus and c…
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SELF DEFENSE
Fighting for Honor: The History of African Martial Art in the Atlantic World
The presence of African influence and tradition in the Americas has long been recognized in art, music, language, agriculture, and religion. T. J. …
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SPIRITUALITY
Nagô Grandma and White Papa: Candomblé and the Creation of Afro-Brazilian Identity
Nago Grandma and White Papa is a signal work in Brazilian anthropology and African diaspora studies originally published in Brazil in 1988. This ed…
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RACISM
Black Women against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil
In Brazil and throughout the African diaspora, black women, especially poor black women, are rarely considered leaders of social movements let alon…
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SPIRITUALITY
Fetishes and Monuments Afro-Brazilian Art and Culture in the Twentieth Century
One hundred years ago in Brazil the rituals of Candomblé were feared as sorcery and persecuted as crime. Its cult objects were fearsome fetishes. N…
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RACISM
The Anti-Black City: Police Terror and Black Urban Life in Brazil
An important new ethnographic study of São Paulo’s favelas revealing the widespread use of race-based police repression in Brazil While Black Li…
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BRAZIL
Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil
Tourists exult in Bahia, Brazil, as a tropical paradise infused with the black population's one-of-a-kind vitality. But the alluring images of…
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BRAZIL
Frontiers of Citizenship: A Black and Indigenous History of Postcolonial Brazil
Frontiers of Citizenship is an engagingly-written, innovative history of Brazil's black and indigenous people that redefines our understanding …
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BRAZIL
Capoeira: The History of an Afro-Brazilian Martial Art
Originally the preserve of Afro-Brazilian slaves, the marginalized and the underclasses in Brazilian society, capoeira is now a mainstream sport, t…
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