Mama Africa: Reinventing Africanness in Bahia. PATRICIA PINHO. Translated by Elena Langdon: Durham: Duke University Press, 2010.

Abstract

This translation of Patricia Pinho’s Mama Africa is a timely and welcome addition to the scholarship on racial identity in Brazil and will be useful as an English-language teaching resource in courses about Brazil, race, and the Atlantic World. Instructors might consider its adoption in contexts where they have also employed Kim Butler’s Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won, though the study is wholly based on experiences in Bahia.