Historical Preamble: The European/Indigenous Encounter --1. Comparative Diasporas: The Aftershocks of Slavery -- 2. The Structuring Absences of Silent Cinema, 1898-1929 -- 3. Carmen Miranda, Grande Otelo, and the Chanchada, 1929-1949 -- 4. Pan-American Interlude: Orson Welles in Brazil, 1942 -- 5. Vera Cruz: Hollywood in the Tropics, 1949-1954 -- 6. The Favela: From Rio 40 Graus to Black Orpheus, 1954-1959 -- 7. Intimations of Blackness, 1960-1962 -- 8. Afro Brazilian Religion and the Bahian Renaissance, 1962-1963 -- 9. From Auto-Critique to Anthropophagy, 1964-1971 -- 10. Afro/Indigenous Celebration: The 1970s -- 11. Toward the Present: Cultural Victories/Political Defeats -- The Potentials of Polyphony: Reflections on Race and Representation