"How presumptuous the author of this book!" Thus Coping begins. The author happens to be a white guy from the United States writing about Afro-Brazilian poor in the city of Salvador, Brazil, where he and his Mexican wife have made a second home. But the viewpoint guiding this book is neither Anglo-American nor Mexican nor Afro-Brazilian, but something else: an ongoing coalescent tri-cultural process. If you will, let the following opinions qualify this process: "Coping is a jargon-free literary expression that is as informative and unsettling as it is entertaining." --Silvia Oliveira, Rhode Island College "Combining partly fictional and partly factual accounts involving Afro-Bahians from various walks of life, Merrell's text manages to be both informative and puzzling." --Jos? dos Santos, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil "The book is poignant and profound, yet it is written in a fluid prose that will be appealing to a general audience." --Araceli Tinajero, City College of...

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