Full Description
An unexpected detour can change the course of our lives forever, and, for white American anthropologist Margaret Willson, a stopover in Brazil led to immersion in a kaleidoscopic world of street urchins, capoeiristas, drug dealers, and wise teachers. She and African Brazilian activist Rita Conceicao joined forces to break the cycles of poverty and violence around them by pledging local residents they would create a top-quality educational program for girls. From 1991 to the graduation of Bahia Street's first college-bound graduate in 2005, Willson and Conceicao 's adventure took them to the shantytowns of Brazil's Northeast, high-society London, and urban Seattle.
In a narrative brimming with honesty and grace, Dance Lest We All Fall Down unfolds the story of this remarkable alliance, showing how friendship, when combined with courage, insight, and passion, can transform dreams of a better world into reality.
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Contents
Acknowledgments
Part One Learning to Dance
1. Seduction
2. The First Return
3. Agnaldo and Candomble
4. Letting Salvador Inside
5. Learning to Dance
6. A Dangerous Embrace
7. Marginals
8. Sex and Friendship
9. Rain
10. Burnt Knives
11. A Stranger
Part Two Treading Water
12. Encountering Seattle
13. Ideas
14. Life Change
15. Letting the Outer Skin Be Social
16. Of Race and Remembrance
17. More Sides of Bahia
18. A View Into the Abyss
19. Power and Presence
20. Trust
21. Tall Poppy
22. A Shadowed Color of Shade
Part Three Laughter Lessons
23. Leaves of Understanding
24. Love
25. Barriers of Glass
26. Storms
27. Sharing a Lifeboat
28. Heartbreak
29. Evolution
30. Resting on the Wings of a Butterfly
Afterword
