"Essays drawn from a ... workshop held on the island of Gorée, Senegal, in December 2002 ..."--P. 4, cover.

Colonialism and the creation of racial identities in Lourenço Marques, Mozambique / Valdemir Zamparoni -- Every house has a story : the archaeology of Gorée Island, Sénégal / Ibrahima Thiaw -- An imaginary ocean : carnival in Cape Town and the Black Atlantic / Denis-Constant Martin -- Transatlantic transformations : the origins and identities of Africans in the Americas / Paul E. Lovejoy -- Making place, making race : St. Helena and the South Atlantic world / Daniel A. Yon -- Looking through a broken mirror : blackness, shared memory, shared identity and shared destiny / Chris O. Uroh -- Global names, creolized identities / Alex van Stipriaan -- Ethnic-religious modes of identification among the Gbe-speaking people in eighteenth and nineteenth century Brazil / Luis Nicolau Parés -- Saint Anthony at the crossroads in Kongo and Brazil : 'creolization' and identity politics in the Black South Atlantic, ca. 1700-1850 / Robert W. Slenes -- The construction of a Black Catholic identity in Brazil during the time of slavery : saints and Minkisi : a reflection of cultural miscegenation / Marina de Mello e Souza -- "From 'near white' to 'almost black' : racial classifications in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Brazil / Jocélio Teles dos Santos -- 'Terras de Quilombo' : land rights, memory of slavery, and ethnic identification in contemporary Brazil / Hebe Mattos -- The Atlantic connection : history, memory and identities / Ubiratan Castro de Araújo.