ABSTRACT
In both public debate on and artistic representations of the Return from Africa, the presence of black and mixed-race people has been delegated to a secondary role. The biographies of these people somehow escape the paradigm of Retorno, since their integration was often more difficult due to the otherness inscribed on their bodies. In this chapter two works that look at the lives of mixed-race children/adolescents born in Angola are analysed: the novel Os Pretos de Pousaflores (2011) by Aida Gomes, and the essayistic-testimonial book Esse Cabelo (2015) by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida. In these works, the fictional characters arrive in Portugal and grow up facing a racist society. The chapter discusses the different generations they belong to, the memories they absorb within their families, and the impact of gender and social class on their identity construction.
