Name: Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil (en Inglés)
SKU: 62052949
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Author: Christen A Smith
ISBN: 9780252039935

portada Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil (en Inglés)

Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil (en Inglés)

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University Of Illinois Press

Autor

Christen A Smith

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

280

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

ISBN13

9780252039935

Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil (en Inglés)

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Reseña del libro "Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil (en Inglés)"

Tourists exult in Bahia, Brazil, as a tropical paradise infused with the black population's one-of-a-kind vitality. But the alluring images of smiling black faces and dancing black bodies masks an ugly reality of anti-black authoritarian violence. Christen A. Smith argues that the dialectic of glorified representations of black bodies and subsequent state repression reinforces Brazil's racially hierarchal society. Interpreting the violence as both institutional and performative, Smith follows a grassroots movement and social protest theater troupe in their campaigns against racial violence. As Smith reveals, economies of black pain and suffering form the backdrop for the staged, scripted, and choreographed afro-paradise that dazzles visitors. The work of grassroots organizers exposes this relationship, exploding illusions and asking unwelcome questions about the impact of state violence performed against the still-marginalized mass of Afro-Brazilians. Based on years of field work, Afro-Paradise is a passionate account of a long-overlooked struggle for life and dignity in contemporary Brazil.