Afro-Paradise :: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil /

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. This work argues that the dialectic of glorifie...

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1. Verfasser: Smith, Christen A., 1977- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
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Zusammenfassung: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. This work argues that the dialectic of glorified representations of black bodies and subsequent state repression reinforces Brazil's racially hierarchal society.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages)
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-250) and index.
ISBN:9780252098093
0252098099

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