Kniha Afro-Brazilians Niyi Afolabi

Afro-Brazilians

Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy

Autor: Niyi Afolabi
Jazyk: Angličtina
Väzba: Pevná
Vydavateľ: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Dostupnosť: Skladom u dodávateľa
Odosielame za 10-18 dní
184.29
Brazil, the most racially diverse Latin American country, is also the most contradictory: for centur...

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Autor
Jazyk
Angličtina
Väzba
Kniha - Pevná
Vydalo
2009
Stránok
443
EAN
9781580462624
ISBN
1580462626
Enbook ID
04822692
Hmotnosť
780
Rozmery
166 x 234 x 29

Kompletný popis

Brazil, the most racially diverse Latin American country, is also the most contradictory: for centuries it has maintained fantasy as reality through the myth of racial democracy. Enshrined in that mythology is the masking of exclusionism that strategically displaces and marginalizes Afro-Brazilians from political power. In this absorbing new study, Niyi Afolabi exposes the tensions between the official position on racial harmony and the reality of marginalization experienced by Afro-Brazilians by exploring Afro-Brazilian cultural production as a considered response to this exclusion. The author examines major contributions in music, history, literature, film, and popular culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to reveal how each performance by an Afro-Brazilian artist addresses issues of identity and racism through a variety of veils that entertain, ridicule, invoke, provoke, protest, and demand change at the same time. Raising cogent questions such as the vital role of Afro-Brazilians in the making of Brazilian national identity; the representation of Brazilian women as hapless, exploited, and abandoned; the erosion of the influence of black movements due to fragmentation and internal disharmony; and the portrayal of Afro-Brazilians on the national screen as domestics, Afolabi provides insightful, nuanced analyses that tease out the complexities of the dilemma in their appropriate historical, political, and social contexts. Niyi Afolabi teaches Luso-Brazilian, Yoruba, and African Diaspora studies in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese as well as the John L. Warfield Center for African and African American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.

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