(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro-Brazilian (Con)Texts (Black Studies and Critical Thinking)(Re)Considering Blackness in Contemporary Afro Brazilian (Con)Texts critically interrogates the issue of Blackness in Brazil under the lens of cultural studies broadly defined to include utterances on transnationalism and cosmopolitanism. From a multidisciplinary perspective, this collection of scholarly articles queries the notions of national and racial identity and ambivalence, through critical analysis of contemporary (mid twentieth century to the