Introduction-- PARTI I. PRESENT ISSUES-- 1. . Colour and Race in Brazil: From Whitening to the Search for Afro-Descent-- 2. Brazil and Colombia: Comparative Race Relations in South America-- 3. Racism: An Evolving Virus-- 4. Mulattos in Brazil and Angola: A Comparative Approach, Seventeenth to Twenty-First Centuries-- PART II. THE MODERN FRAMEWORK-- 5. Charles Boxer and the Race Equivoque-- 6. Gilberto Freyre and Brazilian Self-Perception-- 7. Writing from the Margins: Towards an Epistemology of Contemporary African Brazilian Fiction-- 8. Indigenato Before Race? Some Proposals on Portuguese Forced Labour Law in Mozambique and the African Empire (1926-62)-- 9. The 'Civilisation Guild': Race and Labour in the Third Portuguese Empire, ca. 1870-1930-- PART III. THE LONG VIEW-- 10. Marriage Traps: Colonial Interactions with Indigenous Marriage Ties in East Timor-- 11. The Free Afro-Brazilians in a Slave Society-- 12. . The 'General Language' and the Social Status of the Indian in Brazil, Sixteenth to Nineteenth Centuries-- 13. The New Christian Divide in the Portuguese-Speaking World (Sixteenth to Eighteenth Centuries)-- 14. From Marco Polo to Manuel I of Portugal: The Image of the East African Coast in the Early Sixteenth Century.