Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: An Afro-Latin Paradox?: Ambiguous Ethnic Lines, Sharp Class Divisions, and Vital Black Culture -- Ch. 1. Negro Parents, Black Children: Racial Classification in a Changing Brazil -- Ch. 2. A Contested Icon: On the Use and Abuse of Africa in Elite and Popular Brazilian Culture -- Ch. 3. The Local and the Global in Today's Afro-Bahia -- Ch. 4. "Glocal" Funk in Bahia and in Rio: Local Interpretations of Black Globalization -- Ch. 5. Being Black in Two Cities: Comparing Lower-Class Black Youth in Salvador and Amsterdam -- Conclusion: The Place of Brazil in the Black Atlantic.

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