“…This would mean a “turned page” (Cicalo , 24) supposedly free from the convenient illusions of Freyrean culturalist ideology (also Ress ). As I noted in a review of Saraiva's book (Cesarino ), however, I find it hard to believe that we have suddenly come to a “Hegelian end of history” in Brazil's contradictory and oscillating relations with the African continent. The emerging indebtedness discourse has come to coexist with the hegemonic culturalist grammar, without fully displacing it.…”