Afro-Paradise : Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil /
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 glorifie...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Springfield :
University of Illinois Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover
- Title
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Interlude I: Culture Shock
- 1 Afro-Paradise: Where the Whip Tears the Flesh
- Interlude II: "The Berlin Wall"
- 2 The Paradox of Black Citizenship
- Interlude III: "Terrorism"
- 3 The White Hand: State Magic and Signs of War
- Interlude IV: "The Police Raid"
- 4 Palimpsestic Embodiment
- Interlude V: Reprise
- 5 In and Out of the Ineffable
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.