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Original edition translated from Portuguese by Elena Langdon., 266 p., An examination of the meanings of blackness in the Brazilian state of Bahia, which is often called the most African part of Brazil.
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184 p., Offers an account of the historical transformations which sugar's representation has undergone. It is suitable for scholars in Slavery, and Caribbean studies. Includes "'Daughters sacrificed to strangers' : interracial desires and intertextual memories in Caryl Phillips's Cambridge."
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282 p., Prior tO 1640, When the Regular Slave Trade to New Spain ended, colonial Mexico was the second largest importer of slaves in the Americas. Even so, slavery never supplanted indigenous labor in the colony, and by the second half of the 17th century there were more free Afromexicans than slaves in Mexico.
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221 p., Chronicling the period from the abolition of slavery in 1888 to the start of Brazil's military regime in 1964, Romo uncovers how the state's nonwhite majority moved from being a source of embarrassment to being a critical component of Bahia's identity.