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Although Brazil is home to the largest African diaspora, the religions of its African descendants have often been syncretized and submerged, first under the for

• Explains how Kimbanda’s presiding deity Eshu embodies both masculine and feminine principles, both god and devil, and thus represents human nature itself

This text explores how Afro-Brazilians define their Africanness through Candomblé and Quilombo models, and construct paradigms of blackness with influences fro

In Creative Transformations, Krista Brune brings together Brazilian fiction, film, journalism, essays, and correspondence from the late nineteenth to the early

Offers both a theoretical and concrete example of what W. E. B. Du Bois called “spiritual strivings.”