This book addresses the Lusophone Black Atlantic as a space of historical and cultural production between Portugal, Brazil, and Africa. The authors demonstrate how it has been shaped by diverse colonial cultures including the Portuguese imperial project. The Lusophone context offers a unique perspective on the history of the Atlantic.

Introduction: The Atlantic, between Scylla and Charybdis; N.P.Naro, R.S.Roca & D.H.Treece PART I: COLONIAL FORMATIONS The Fetish in the Lusophone Atlantic; R.S.Roca Kriol without Creoles: Afro-Atlantic Connections in the Guinea Bissau Region, 16th to 20th Centuries; P.J.Havik Historical Roots of Homosexuality in the Lusophone Atlantic; L.Mott PART II: MIGRATIONS AND COLONIAL CULTURES Atlantic Microhistories: Mobility, Personal Ties, and Slaving in the Black Atlantic World (Angola and Brazil); R.Ferreira Colonial Aspirations: Connecting Three Points of the Lusophone Black Atlantic; N.P.Naro Agudas from Benin: The "Brazilian" Identity as a Bridge to Citizenship; M.Guran Emigration and the Spatial Production of Difference from Cape Verde; K.Fikes African and Brazilian Altars in Lisbon: Some Considerations on the Reconfigurations of the Portuguese Religious Field; C.Saraiva PART III: HYBRIDITY, MULTICULTURALISM, AND RACIAL POLITICS History and Memory in Capoeira Lyrics from Bahia, Brazil; M.Rohrig Assunção The "Orisha Religion": between Syncretism and Reafricanization; S.Capone Undoing Brazil: Hybridity Versus Multiculturalism; P.Fry