The Dialectic Is in the Sea : The Black Radical Thought of Beatriz Nascimento / Beatriz Nascimento [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nascimento, Maria Beatriz, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Nascimento, Maria Beatriz.

Movimento Negro Unificado (Brazil).

Black people--Race identity--Brazil.

Black people.

Black people--Brazil--Social conditions--20th century.

Social movements--Brazil--History--20th century.

Social movements.

Women, Black--Brazil--Social conditions--20th century.

Women, Black.

Brazil--Race relations.

Brazil.

Brazil--Social conditions.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (409 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2023]

Summary:

Collected writings by one of the most influential Black Brazilian intellectuals of the twentieth centuryBeatriz Nascimento (1942-1995) was a poet, historian, artist, and political leader in Brazil's Black movement, an innovative and creative thinker whose work offers a radical reimagining of gender, space, politics, and spirituality around the Atlantic and across the Black diaspora. Her powerful voice still resonates today, reflecting a deep commitment to political organizing, revisionist historiography, and the lived experience of Black women. The Dialectic Is in the Sea is the first English-language collection of writings by this vitally important figure in the global tradition of Black radical thought.The Dialectic Is in the Sea traces the development of Nascimento's thought across the decades of her activism and writing, covering topics such as the Black woman, race and Brazilian society, Black freedom, and Black aesthetics and spirituality. Incisive introductory and analytical essays provide key insights into the political and historical context of Nascimento's work. This engaging collection includes an essay by Bethânia Gomes, Nascimento's only daughter, who shares illuminating and uniquely personal insights into her mother's life and career.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Preface: Dear Mamãe

Acknowledgments

Introductory Section

Introduction

General Introduction

A Short Biography

The Black Movement in Brazil

The Black Radical Tradition

Black Studies

Space, Time, and Spirituality

Writing, Text, and Style

On Collaboration

The Structure of the Book

A Note on Translation

Remembering the Great Atlantic: Beatriz Nascimento and Diasporic Black Thought

Part I. Race and Brazilian Society

Introduction: On Race, Racism, and Racial Democracy

Antiracism

For a History of Black People

Black People and Racism

Black People, Seen by Themselves

Our Racial Democracy

Fragment (Realizing Consciousness)

Part II. The Black Woman

Introduction: The Black Woman: Reflections on Blackness, Gender, Sexuality, and Racial Capitalism

Dream

Toward Racial Consciousness

The Black Woman in the Labor Market

Maria Beatriz Nascimento: Researcher

The Black Woman and Love

An Aside to Feminism

Part III. Quilombo: Thoughts on Black Freedom and Liberation

Introduction: On Quilombo

Urgency (Zumbi)

"Quilombos": Social Change or Conservatism?

Alternative Social Systems Organized by Black People: From Quilombos to Favelas (a)

Alternative Social Systems Organized by Black People: From Quilombos to Favelas (b)

The Antônio Conselheiro Movement and Abolitionism: A Vision of Regional History

Post-revolutionary Angolan Nativism

Kilombo and Community Memory: A Case Study

The Concept of Quilombo and Black Cultural Resistance

The Role of Women in Brazilian Quilombos: Resistance and Life [Project]

Kilombo

Part IV. Black Aesthetics, Spirituality, Subjectivity, and the Cosmic

Introduction: The Body, Territory, the Spiritual, Immaterial, and the Ancestral

Femme Erecta

The Slave Quarters Seen from the Big House.

The Slaves Seen by the Masters: Merchandise and Counterculture in National Cinema

What They Call Culture

Literature and Identity

Letter from Santa Catarina

For a (New) Existential and Physical Territory

Cultures in Dialogue

Portugal

Angola

Aruanda!

Study in E Major, Opus 10 No. 3

Zumbi of Palmares

The First Great Loss: Grandma's Death

Final Section

On Beatriz Nascimento: A Conversation between Bethânia N. F. Gomes, Archie Davies, and Christen A. Smith

Part I: The Woman

Part II: Political Activism and the Dangers of Being a Black Intellectual

Part III: Black History and Culture

Afterword, in the Guise of a Postface

Biographical Glossary

Chronology

Index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

9780691241210

069124121X

OCLC:

1397572586