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The Brazilian Image of Africa From its birth Brazil had the most intimate relations with the continent of Africa or, at least, with certain parts of the continent. So close indeed were Brazil and Portuguese Africa that the latter, at that time already halted in its territorial expansion, was for a time a Brazilian administrative dependency. These relations-geographic, ethnic, and cultural -persisted for over three hundred years, but ended in 1850 with the abolition of the African slave trade. Thereafter Africa's image lived on vitally in Brazil only in those scattered parts of the country where the culture was Afro-Brazilian. ## Only thorough research could determine what was our ancestors' image of Africa and Africans, what values, attitudes, and stereotypes it embodied. We know that the attitudes of one people toward other peoples express a shifting and confused mixture of the real and the mythical. If this is true even when the peoples involved are familiar with one another because of geographic proximity and cultural affinities, then the distortion is likely to be magnified when they are remote and isolated for a long time from one another. The Brazilian image of Africa was inf

Who reads Brazil and Africa?

Author

José Honório Rodrigues; Richard A. Mazzara; Sam Hileman

Publisher

University of California Press

Published

2020

Language

EN

ISBN

9780520320529

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Science, Social_sciences