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

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Author / Creator:	Smith, Christen A., 1977- author.
Imprint:	Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016] ©2016
Description:	1 online resource (xiv, 261 pages)
Language:	English
Subject:	Blacks -- Brazil -- Salvador. Blacks -- Race identity -- Brazil -- Salvador. Blacks -- Crimes against -- Brazil -- Salvador. Blacks. Blacks -- Race identity. Race relations. Salvador (Brazil) -- Race relations. Brazil -- Salvador. Electronic books. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12398594

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ISBN:	9780252098093 0252098099 0252039939 9780252039935
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. English. Print version record.
Summary:	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.
Other form:	Print version: Smith, Christen A., 1977- Afro-Paradise. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2016] 9780252039935

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