Afro-Paradise : Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil
Christen A. Smith (Author)
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
eBook, English, 2016
University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 2016