Book, Bantos, Malês and black identity[LS]

Language: Brazilian Portuguese. Bantos, Malês and black identity brings together historical elements about the formation of Brazil in its ethnic, identity and cultural character, and shows the reader the contributions of the Bantu throughout this process. Through his involvement with black cultural resistance in Brazil and Africa, Nei Lopes establishes new parameters on the relationship between Islam and blackness, presenting a face of history ignored by most Brazilians. This new edition deeply updates the bibliography of the book originally released in 2007, including works by contemporary authors such as Elikia M'Bokolo, Carlos Moore, Alberto da Costa e Silva and Jan Vansina, among others. From a historiographical point of view, it deepens the importance of the Zulu people as a matrix of several other Bantu peoples. From a sociological point of view, it discusses black identity incorporating updated themes and concepts, such as supremacism, structural racism and the naturalization of racism. For professor Joel Rufino dos Santos, “[...] Nei is a hybrid that ironizes (in the Socratic sense of counter-ideology) its two halves. It is a gathering of poor black suburbanites and intellectuals themselves.”