Title In light of Africa : globalizing blackness in northeast Brazil / Allan Charles Dawson

Published Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 191 pages .) Series Anthropological horizons Anthropological horizons Contents Blackness and Africanity in Brazil and elsewhere -- West African cultural brokers in northeast Brazil -- Manifestations of Afro-Brazilian blackness -- Blackness in the Bahian serta? -- Conclusions Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Black people -- Race identity -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) Black people -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- Ethnic identity Globalization -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) Black people -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- Social conditions SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. Black people -- Ethnic identity Black people -- Race identity Black people -- Social conditions Civilization -- African influences Globalization -- Social aspects Public opinion, Brazilian Kulturelle Identität Afrika Motiv SUBJECT Africa -- Foreign public opinion, Brazilian Brazil -- Civilization -- African influences. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016523 Subject Africa Brazil Brazil -- Bahia (State) Bahia Form Electronic book ISBN 1442619937 9781442619937

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