The Masters and the Slaves

1. Introduction: Who Were the Masters in the Americas?
Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond

2. The Sugar Daddy: Gilberto Freyre and the White Man’s Love for Blacks
César Braga-Pinto

3. Writing Brazilian Culture
Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond

4. Authority’s Shadowy Double: Thomas Jefferson and the Architecture of Illegitimacy
Helena Holgersson-Shorter

5. Race, Nation, and the Symbolics of Servitude in Haitian Noirisme
Valerie Kaussen

6. Fanon as “Metrocolonial” Flaneur in the Caribbean Post-Plantation/Algerian Colonial City
Nalini Natarajan

7. From the Tropics: Cultural Subjectivity and Politics in Gilberto Freyre
Jossianna Arroyo

8. Hybridity and Mestizaje: Sincretism or Subversive Complicity? Subalternity from the Perspective of the Coloniality of Power
Ramón Grosfoguel

9. The Rhythm of Macumba: Lívio Abramo’s Engagement with Afro-Brazilian Culture
Luiza Franco Moreira

10. Blood, Memory, and Nation: Massacre and Mourning in Edwidge Danticat’s The Farming of Bones
Shreerekha Subramanian

Avainsanat: Cultural and Media Studies, Latin American Culture, History of the Americas, Ethnicity Studies