Allan Charles Dawson

In Light of Africa

Globalizing Blackness in Northeast Brazil

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Produktbeschreibung

In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 336g
• ISBN-13: 9781442626690
• ISBN-10: 1442626690
• Artikelnr.: 40923437

Autorenporträt

By Allan Charles Dawson

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: Blackness and Africanity in Brazil and Elsewhere
Chapter 2: West African Cultural Brokers in Northeast Brazil
Chapter 3: Manifestations of Afro-Brazilian Blackness
Chapter 4: Blackness in the Bahian Sertão
Chapter 5: Conclusions
Notes
Bibliography