Brazil House, 240, 258, 290–292

Brazilian African, 257, 270, 286, 289, 293

Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, 3, 5, 203, 311

British, xxiv–xxv, 49, 104, 110–111, 230, 237, 247, 256–257, 261, 276

Buganda, 111

“Buscando outra sociedade,” 238–239

Cabinda, 109, 143

Calabar, 97, 102, 114, 123, 127

Campos, Monica Menezes, 252, 304

candomblé, 120, 228–229, 282

Cape Coast, 15, 256

Cape Verde, 242, 254

Caribbean, xviii, xxi, 5, 7, 20, 28–29, 33–35, 91–92, 103–104, 111, 114–115, 139, 159, 194, 309, 318

Carpentier, Alejo, 92, 123, 126, 132

Castro Alves, Antonio, 210–211, 225

Castro, Fidel, 17, 136

Caucasian, xx, xx, 8, 71, 172, 318

Cavero, Arturo “El Zambo,” 89

Central Africa, 120, 306

Central America, 7, 20, 103

Central Mosque, 240

Chalá, Ana, 18

Chambacú, corral de negros, 21–22

Chandler, Daniel, 159–160

Changó, 48, 101–102, 129, 137, 283

Chávez, Hugo, 18, 212, 309–310

chévere, 127

Chile, xix, 8, 19

Chinese, 18, 47–50

chino, 14, 60–61, 118–119

Christian, 137, 187, 242, 258, 266–269, 272, 279

Christian (New), 268–270

Christianity, 8, 242, 251, 260, 271, 283, 289

Cidade de Deus, 148

cimarrón(es), 105, 144, 208, 243

cocolo, 34–35

Colombia, 5, 8, 26, 208, 212, 217, 259, 307–309

colorism, xxv, 65–66, 73, 207, 218

color indio, 57

Comas, Juan, 158–159

conga, 91, 132

Congo, 10, 93–94, 97, 99, 102, 108, 110–111, 114, 120–125, 134, 143, 212, 306

Conspiración de la escalera (Conspiracy of the Ladder), 231

Conversación en la catedral, 87

Cortés, Hernán, 54

corrido, 61–63

cosmovision, 4, 6, 33, 100–101, 138, 195, 218, 279

creole, 88, 104, 134, 176, 318

crioulo, 285

Cualquier miércoles soy tuya, 28, 32, 116

Cuba, xviii, 1, 7–8, 18, 29, 47–51, 55–56, 83–84, 91, 94, 96–103, 119–139, 163–164, 172–174, 185, 207–208, 213, 217, 221, 226–233, 259, 282–283

Cuban color, 51, 55–56

cubaneo, 134

cubanía, 134, 138–139

cubanidad, 124, 134

Cubanness, 124, 134–135

cueca negra, 90

da Luz, Eduardo, 108–109

da Vila, Martinho, 145