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Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil
Christen A Smith
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| #1059602 in Books | Smith Christen A | 2016-01-06 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.00 x.90 x6.00l,.0 | File type: PDF | 280 pages | Afro Paradise Blackness Violence and Performance in Brazil||1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| but Christen makes this herculean feat look easy.|By Michael Ralph|I have seen Christen present her incisive research at conferences and read earlier drafts of this work, in various forms. Yet, I was still stunned by the elegance and power of this book. It's rare to find ethnographic work that is engaging, theoretically sophisticated, and yet accessible, but Christen makes this||
This book powerfully demonstrates that Bahia's exotic allure is in fact no afro-paradise. In a unique fusion of ethnography and textual analysis, the author reveals how in the 'land of happiness,' anti-black violence is pervasive and deadly. As the questi
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. Christen A. Smith argues that the dialectic of glorified representations of black bodies and subsequent state repression reinforces Brazil's racially hierarchal society. Interpreting the violence as both institutional and...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your gadget.Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil | Christen A Smith. I was recommended this book by a dear friend of mine.
