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5%OFFChristen A. Smith - Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil - 9780252081446 - V9780252081446
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Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil

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Description for Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil Paperback. Num Pages: 280 pages, 12 black and white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KLS; HBJK; JFSL4; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 431.
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, ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
University of Illinois Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
430g
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Baltimore, United States
ISBN
9780252081446
SKU
V9780252081446
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About Christen A. Smith
Christen A. Smith is Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin.

Reviews for Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil
This provocative ethnography is extremely timely. The current upsurge of antiracist activism on U.S. and Brazilian streets and also the availability of a rich repertoire of theoretical, and methodological, and ethical tools that anthropologists like Christen Smith strategically engage have set the stage for this compelling social analysis, which is situated where scholarship and activism intersect. In a remarkably sophisticated ... Read more

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