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Author Dawson, Allan Charles, 1973- author.

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

Publication Info. Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 191 pages .)
text file
Series Anthropological horizons
Anthropological horizons.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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Subject Black people -- Race identity -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
Black people -- Race identity.
Brazil -- Bahia (State)
Black people -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- Ethnic identity.
Black people.
Ethnicity.
Africa -- Foreign public opinion, Brazilian.
Africa.
Brazil -- Civilization -- African influences.
Brazil.
Civilization.
Globalization -- Social aspects -- Brazil -- Bahia (State)
Globalization -- Social aspects.
Black people -- Brazil -- Bahia (State) -- Social conditions.
Social conditions.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: 9781442649316 1442649313
ISBN 1442619937 (electronic book)
9781442619937 (electronic book)
9781442649316 (hardcover)
1442649313 (hardcover)
9781442626690 (paperback)
1442626690 (paperback)