Antonio D. Tillis is Associate Professor and Chair of the African and African American Studies Program at Dartmouth College. He is the current president of the College Language Association (CLA), editor of PALARA (Publication of the Afro-Latin/American Research Association), and a Fulbright Scholar to Brazil. He has published numerous articles in journals such as The Afro-Hispanic Review, Callaloo, The Hispanic Journal, Mosaic Journal, CLA, and Transit Circle. He is the author of Manuel Zapata Olivella and the «Darkening» of Latin American Literature and translator of Caribbean African Upon Awakening, poetry by Blas Jiménez.

• Contents: Antonio D. Tillis: Introduction: Blackness and Cultural Tourism in Brazil: The Case of Salvador da Bahia – Maria Aparecida Andrade Salgueiro: Literature, Written Art and Historical Commitment: From Cadernos to Conceição Evaristo – Ari Lima: Tradition, History and Spiral of Time in the Samba de Roda of Bahia – Eurídice Figueiredo: Cross Readings: Mestizaje, Transculturation, Hybridism, and Creolization – Edimilson Pereira de Almeida: Poetry in the Middle of the Street, in the Middle of the Sea: Notes on Ritual and Aesthetics of the Cantopoeta in the African-Brazilian Culture – Eduardo de Assis Duarte: Posthumous Memories of Slavery: Blackness and Machado de Assis – Ana Beatriz Gonçalves: Echoes of Africa in the Pontos of Umbanda: From Afro-Brazilian to Brazilian – Adélcio de Sousa Cruz: Noise Literature and African-Brazilian Narrative in Cidade de Deus – Leda Martins: Performing Time, Performing Memory: Africa and Blackness in Brazilian Congado – Marcos Antônio Alexandre: Forms of Representation of the Black Body in Performance – Jorge Nacimento: Cultural and Racial Consciousness: The «calling» of Racionais MC’s.