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Record Nr.

UNINA9910816509003321

Autore

Smith Christen A. <1977->

Titolo

Afro-paradise : blackness, violence, and performance in Brazil / / Christen A. Smith

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Urbana, [Illinois] ; ; Chicago, [Illinois] ; ; Springfield, [Missouri] : , : University of Illinois Press, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

0-252-09809-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Disciplina

305.896/08142

Soggetti

Black people - Brazil - Salvador

Black people - Race identity - Brazil - Salvador

Black people - Crimes against - Brazil - Salvador

Salvador (Brazil) Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.