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In Light of Africa : Globalizing Blackness in Northeast Brazil / Allan Charles Dawson.
De Gruyter University of Toronto Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015 Available online
View online- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dawson, Allan Charles, author.
- Series:
- Anthropological horizons.
- Anthropological Horizons
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Black people--Brazil--Bahia (State)--Ethnic identity.
- Black people.
- Black people--Race identity--Brazil--Bahia (State).
- Black people--Brazil--Bahia (State)--Social conditions.
- Brazil--Bahia (State).
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (206 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia.
- Contents:
- Blackness and Africanity in Brazil and elsewhere
- West African cultural brokers in northeast Brazil
- Manifestations of Afro-Brazilian blackness
- Blackness in the Bahian serta?
- Conclusions.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 165-177) and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Aug 2018)
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-1994-5
- 1-4426-1993-7
- OCLC:
- 898086083
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