Afro-paradise : blackness, violence, and performance in Brazil

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Afro-paradise : blackness, violence, and performance in Brazil

Christen A. Smith

University of Illinois Press, c2016

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-250) and index

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内容説明

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 performative, Smith follows a grassroots movement and social protest theater troupe in their campaigns against racial violence. As Smith reveals, economies of black pain and suffering form the backdrop for the staged, scripted, and choreographed afro-paradise that dazzles visitors. The work of grassroots organizers exposes this relationship, exploding illusions and asking unwelcome questions about the impact of state violence performed against the still-marginalized mass of Afro-Brazilians. Based on years of field work, Afro-Paradise is a passionate account of a long-overlooked struggle for life and dignity in contemporary Brazil.

目次

Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 INTERLUDE I: CULTURE SHOCK 31 1 Afro-Paradise: Where the Whip Tears the Flesh 41 INTERLUDE II: "THE BERLIN WALL" 71 2 The Paradox of Black Citizenship 77 INTERLUDE III: "TERRORISM" 113 3 The White Hand: State Magic and Signs of War 117 INTERLUDE IV: "THE POLICE RAID" 153 4 Palimpsestic Embodiment 155 INTERLUDE V: REPRISE 177 5 In and Out of the Ineffable 179 Appendix: Methodology and Timing 207 Notes 213 Bibliography 231 Index 251

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