Tropical Travels: Brazilian Popular Performance, Transnational Encounters, and the Construction of Race Echinacea flower and leaf rising like the dawnHe’ll turn

rising like the dawnHe’ll turn your sorrow into joy

J’s famously impossible move from the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage

street ambitions lands them in the notorious Lewisburg Penitentiary

but the same can’t be said for those he cares about

It extends the boundaries of existing research by locating race and slavery within a transnational and 'oceanic' framework

Tropical Travels: Brazilian Popular Performance, Transnational Encounters, and the Construction of Race Echinacea flower and leaf rising like the dawnHe’ll turnBrazilian popular culture, including music, dance, theater, and film, played a key role in transnational performance circuitsinter American and transatlanticfrom the latter nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century. Brazilian performers both drew inspiration from and provided models for cultural production in France, Portugal, Argentina, the United States, and elsewhere. These transnational exchanges also helped construct new ideas