Title Emergent quilombos : Black life and hip-hop in Brazil / Bryce Henson

Edition First edition Published Austin : University of Texas Press, [2023] ©2023

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 266 pages) : illustrations Series Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture Joe R. and Teresa Lozano Long series in Latin American and Latino art and culture Contents Racial conditions -- Hip-hop aquilombamento -- Black spaces of culture -- Intimacy -- Artifice -- Mediating quilombo politics -- Real women -- Coda: A diasporic love letter Summary "Known as Black Rome, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, is a predominantly Black city. The local art, food, and dance are closely linked to the population's African roots. Yet many Black Brazilian residents are politically and economically disenfranchised. Bryce Henson details a culture of resistance and activism that has emerged in response, expressed through hip-hop and the social relations surrounding it. Based on years of ethnographic research, Emergent Quilombos illuminates how Black hip-hop artists and their circles contest structures of anti-Black racism by creating safe havens and alternative social, cultural, and political systems that serve Black people. These artists valorize and empower marginalized Black peoples through song, aesthetics, media, visual art, and community action that emphasize diasporic connections, ancestrality, and Black identifications in opposition to the anti-Black Brazilian nation. In the process, Henson argues, the Salvador hip-hop scene has reinvigorated and reterritorialized a critical legacy of Black politicocultural resistance: quilombos, maroon communities of Black fugitives who refused slavery as a way of life, gathered away from the spaces of their oppression, protected their communities, and nurtured Black life in all its possibilities."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (JSTOR, viewed February 8, 2024) Subject Hip-hop -- Social aspects -- Brazil Hip-hop -- Political aspects -- Brazil Black people -- Brazil -- Ethnic identity Black people -- Race identity -- Brazil Black people -- Brazil -- Social conditions Working class -- Brazil -- Social conditions Quilombos. SOCIAL SCIENCE / General Black people -- Ethnic identity Black people -- Race identity Black people -- Social conditions Quilombos Working class -- Social conditions Brazil Form Electronic book ISBN 9781477328118 1477328114

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