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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Christen A., 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana ; Chicago ; Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
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