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Afro-paradise : blackness, violence, and performance in Brazil / Christen A. Smith.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Smith, Christen A., 1977- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Brazil--Salvador.
- Black people.
- Black people--Race identity--Brazil--Salvador.
- Black people--Crimes against--Brazil--Salvador.
- Salvador (Brazil)--Race relations.
- Salvador (Brazil).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (281 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Urbana, [Illinois] ; Chicago, [Illinois] ; Springfield, [Missouri] : University of Illinois Press, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780252098093
- 0252098099
- OCLC:
- 936220070
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