Afro-Brazilians - Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy

An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.

List of contents

Negotiating Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy
Two Faces of Racial Democracy
Quilombhoje as a Cultural Collective
Beyond the Curtains: Unveiling Afro-Brazilian Women Writers
(Un)Broken Linkages
The Tropicalist Legacy of Gilberto Gil
Afro-Brazilian Carnival
Film and Fragmentation
Ancestrality and the Dynamics of Afro-Modernity
The Forerunners of Afro-Modernity
(Un)Transgressed Tradition
Ancestrality, Memory, and Citizenship
Quilombo without Frontiers
Ancestral Motherhood of Leci Brandao
The Future of Afro-Brazilian Cultural Production

Product details

• Authors: Niyi Afolabi
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.04.2009
• EAN: 9781580462624
• ISBN: 978-1-58046-262-4
• No. of pages: 443
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 234 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 703 g
• Series: Rochester Studies in African H
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories