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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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Autor principal: Smith, Christen A., 1977- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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