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Afro-Brazilians : cultural production in a racial democracy /

In this absorbing new study, Niyi Afolabi exposes the tensions between the official position on racial harmony and the reality of marginalization experienced by Afro-Brazilians by exploring Afro-Brazilian cultural production as a considered response to this exclusion. The author examines major contr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Afolabi, Niyi (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Portugués
Publicado: Rochester, NY : University of Rochester Press, 2009.
Colección:Rochester studies in African history and the diaspora.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: negotiating cultural production in a racial democracy
  • Two faces of racial democracy
  • Quilombhoje as a cultural collective
  • Beyond the curtains : unveiling Afro-Brazilian women writers
  • (Un)broken linkages
  • The tropicalist legacy of Gilberto Gil
  • Afro-Brazilian carnival
  • Film and fragmentation
  • Ancestrality and the dynamics of Afro-modernity
  • The forerunners of Afro-modernity
  • (Un)transgressed tradition
  • Ancestrality, memory, and citizenship
  • Quilombo without frontiers
  • Ancestral motherhood of Leci Brandão
  • Conclusion: the future of Afro-Brazilian cultural production.