Diaspora without displacement : the coloniality and promise of capoeira in Senegal / Celina de Sá.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

de Sá, Celina, 1989- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Capoeira (Dance)--Social aspects--Senegal.

Capoeira (Dance).

African diaspora.

Race awareness--Senegal.

Race awareness.

Black people--Senegal--Social life and customs.

Black people.

Ethnology--Senegal.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Coloniality and promise of capoeira in Senegal

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2025.

Summary:

"Diaspora Without Displacement is an ethnography of racial self-making in urban West Africa, specifically Senegal, through the embrace of the Afro-Brazilian martial art Capoeira. The book traces how West Africans use capoeira as a way of articulating themselves as Black and kin to members of the global Black diaspora. Although Brazilian capoeira is rooted in Angola, Dakar and the surrounding areas became the home of its return to Africa in the 1990s. This recontextualization helps Senegalese practitioners engage with the history of the transatlantic slave trade from which capoeira developed and as well as what it means to be African in the ongoing history of postcolonial movements. In this way, West Africans use capoeira to participate in the African diaspora without leaving the continent. At the same time, Celina de Sá shows how this sense of Africanness can give way to connections and competitions that renew West African regionalisms, and creative practices can also reproduce racial hierarchies-which de Sá calls the coloniality of Black performance"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Moving Origins

Whose Diaspora? Unmaking Origins and Renewing Regionalism

Whiteness, Blackness, and Bushness: The Coloniality of Black Performance in Dakar

In Pursuit of Heritage: Unpacking the Materiality of Everyday Objects

Spiritual Baggage: Negotiating the Body and Religious Possibilities

After Tourism: Diasporic Chauvinism and the Renewed Regionalism of West

African Host Pilgrims

Protecting the Magical Possibilities of Black Movement.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Sá, Celina de, 1989- Diaspora without displacement.

ISBN:

9781478060932

147806093X

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.