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Afro Paradise Blackness Violence and Performance in Brazil 1st Edition by Christen A Smith ISBN 9780252039935 0252039939

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Author(s): Christen A Smith

ISBN(s): 9780252039935, 0252039939

Edition: Illustrated

File Details: PDF, 3.53 MB

Year: 2016

Language: English

SKU: EB-33136782 Category: History - American Studies Tag: Christen A Smith

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ISBN 10: 0252039939
ISBN 13: 9780252039935
Author: Christen A Smith

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.

Afro Paradise Blackness Violence and Performance in Brazil 1st Edition Table of contents:

Interlude I: Culture Shock

1. Afro-Paradise: Where the Whip Tears the Flesh

Interlude II: “The Berlin Wall”

2. The Paradox of Black Citizenship

Interlude III: “Terrorism”

3. The White Hand: State Magic and Signs of War

Interlude IV: “The Police Raid”

4. Palimpsestic Embodiment

Interlude V: Reprise

5. In and Out of the Ineffable

Appendix

Notes

Bibliography

Index

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