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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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| Format: | Électronique eBook |
| Langue: | Inglés |
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Springfield :
University of Illinois Press,
[2016]
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| Collection: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
| Résumé: | 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 glorified representations of black bodies and subsequent state repression reinforces Brazil's racially hierarchal society. |
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| Description matérielle: | 1 online resource (280 pages). |
| ISBN: | 9780252098093 |