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

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Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil - Smith, Christen A
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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 ...

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Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil 2016, University of Illinois Press

ISBN-13: 9780252081446

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Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil 2016, University of Illinois Press

ISBN-13: 9780252039935

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