Afro-Paradise : Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil /

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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
Main Author: Smith, Christen A., 1977- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Springfield : University of Illinois Press, [2016]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Race relations.
Black people > Race identity.
Black people.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Personnes noires > Crimes contre > Bresil > Salvador.
Personnes noires > Bresil > Salvador.
Black people > Crimes against > Brazil > Salvador.
Black people > Race identity > Brazil > Salvador.
Black people > Brazil > Salvador.
Brazil > Salvador.
Salvador (Brazil) > Race relations.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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