Dance Lest We All Fall Down: Breaking Cycles of Poverty in Brazil and Beyond

Contents

contents Acknowledgments ix part one: learning to dance 1 Seduction 1 2 The First Return 13 3 Agnaldo and Candomblé 25 4 Letting Salvador Inside 35 5 Learning to Dance 45 6 A Dangerous Embrace 53 7 Marginals 63 8 Sex and Friendship 71 9 Rain 83 10 Burnt Knives 91 11 A Stranger 101 part two: treading water 12 Encountering Seattle 111 13 Ideas 117 14 Life Change 125 15 Letting the Outer Skin Be Social 135 16 Of Race and Remembrance 143 17 More Sides of Bahia 153 18 A View Into the Abyss 163 19 Power and Presence 177 20 Trust 185 21 Tall Poppy 199 22 A Shadowed Color of Shade 209 part three: laughter lessons 23 Leaves of Understanding 219 24 Love 229 25 Barriers of Glass 239 26 Storms 249 27 Sharing a Lifeboat 259 28 Heartbreak 271 29 Evolution 283 30 Resting on the Wings of a Butterfly 293 Afterword 301 ...