JEAN MUTEBA RAHIER is Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-New World Studies at Florida International University.

• Introduction Celebrations Festive Rituals, Religious Associations, and Ethnic Reaffirmation of Black Andalusians: Antecedents of the Black Confraternities and Cabildos in the Americas by Isidoro Moreno Presence of Blackness and Representations of Jewishness in the Afro-Esmeraldian Celebrations of the "Semana Santa" (Ecuador) by Jean Muteba Rahier Re-/Presenting Black Female Identity in Brazil: "Filhas d'Oxum" in Bahia Carnival by Carole Boyce Davies Samba Schools: The Logic of Orgy and Blackness in Rio de Janeiro by Myrian Sepulveda dos Santos On the Apparent Carnivalization of Literature from the French Caribbean by Maryse Conde Social Arenas Kwanzaa and the U.S. Ethnic Mosaic by Ariana Hernandez-Reguant Identity, Arena, and Performance: Being West Indian in the San Francisco Bay Area by Percy C. Hintzen Uptown Ladies and Downtown Women: Female Representations of Class and Color in Jamaica by Gina Ulysse Representations of Blackness in Colombian Popular Music by Peter Wade African and Native American Perspectives In Memory of the Slaves: An African View of the Diaspora in the Americas by Peter Sutherland Imagery of Blackness in Indigenous Myth, Discourse, and Ritual by Norman E. Whitten, Jr., and Rachel Corr Bibliography Index

JEAN MUTEBA RAHIER is Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-New World Studies at Florida International University.

• Introduction Celebrations Festive Rituals, Religious Associations, and Ethnic Reaffirmation of Black Andalusians: Antecedents of the Black Confraternities and Cabildos in the Americas by Isidoro Moreno Presence of Blackness and Representations of Jewishness in the Afro-Esmeraldian Celebrations of the "Semana Santa" (Ecuador) by Jean Muteba Rahier Re-/Presenting Black Female Identity in Brazil: "Filhas d'Oxum" in Bahia Carnival by Carole Boyce Davies Samba Schools: The Logic of Orgy and Blackness in Rio de Janeiro by Myrian Sepulveda dos Santos On the Apparent Carnivalization of Literature from the French Caribbean by Maryse Conde Social Arenas Kwanzaa and the U.S. Ethnic Mosaic by Ariana Hernandez-Reguant Identity, Arena, and Performance: Being West Indian in the San Francisco Bay Area by Percy C. Hintzen Uptown Ladies and Downtown Women: Female Representations of Class and Color in Jamaica by Gina Ulysse Representations of Blackness in Colombian Popular Music by Peter Wade African and Native American Perspectives In Memory of the Slaves: An African View of the Diaspora in the Americas by Peter Sutherland Imagery of Blackness in Indigenous Myth, Discourse, and Ritual by Norman E. Whitten, Jr., and Rachel Corr Bibliography Index

JEAN MUTEBA RAHIER is Associate Professor of Anthropology and African-New World Studies at Florida International University.

• Introduction Celebrations Festive Rituals, Religious Associations, and Ethnic Reaffirmation of Black Andalusians: Antecedents of the Black Confraternities and Cabildos in the Americas by Isidoro Moreno Presence of Blackness and Representations of Jewishness in the Afro-Esmeraldian Celebrations of the "Semana Santa" (Ecuador) by Jean Muteba Rahier Re-/Presenting Black Female Identity in Brazil: "Filhas d'Oxum" in Bahia Carnival by Carole Boyce Davies Samba Schools: The Logic of Orgy and Blackness in Rio de Janeiro by Myrian Sepulveda dos Santos On the Apparent Carnivalization of Literature from the French Caribbean by Maryse Conde Social Arenas Kwanzaa and the U.S. Ethnic Mosaic by Ariana Hernandez-Reguant Identity, Arena, and Performance: Being West Indian in the San Francisco Bay Area by Percy C. Hintzen Uptown Ladies and Downtown Women: Female Representations of Class and Color in Jamaica by Gina Ulysse Representations of Blackness in Colombian Popular Music by Peter Wade African and Native American Perspectives In Memory of the Slaves: An African View of the Diaspora in the Americas by Peter Sutherland Imagery of Blackness in Indigenous Myth, Discourse, and Ritual by Norman E. Whitten, Jr., and Rachel Corr Bibliography Index