Race and Afro-Brazilian Agency in Brazil (Routledge Studies on African and Black Diaspora)

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This book provides an insight into the Afro-Brazilian experience of racism in Brazil from the 19th Century to the present day, exploring people of African Ancestry’s responses to racism in the context of a society where racism was present in practice, though rarely explicit in law. Race and Afro-Brazilian Agency in Brazil examines the variety of strategies, from conservative to radical, that people of African ancestry have used to combat racism throughout the diaspora in Brazil. In studying the legacy of color-blind racism in Brazil, in contrast to racially motivated policies extant in the US and South Africa during the twentieth century, the book uncovers various approaches practiced by Afro-Brazilians throughout the country since the abolition of slavery towards racism, unique to the Brazilian experience. Studying racism in Brazil from the latter part of the nineteenth century to the present day, the book examines areas such as art and culture, politics, and tradition. This book will be of interest to scholars and students of Brazilian history, diaspora studies, race/ethnicity, and Luso-Brazilian studies. Cover Half Title Series Page Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction Notes Chapter 1: Nineteenth-century Afro-Brazilian uplift: Conservatives, reformers, and outlaw abolitionists Outlaw culture The Afro-Brazilian conservative The Afro-Brazilian reformer Luiz Gama: a Reformer in an outlaw tradition José do Patrocínio: against slavery but an ambivalent understanding of blackness André Rebouças: Afro-diasporic upliftment Conclusion Notes Chapter 2: Black Brazilian protest from an African diasporic perspective during the First Republic and early Vargas era Background of the First Republic Manuel Querino and his two-front struggle Black social clubs and the making of black political solidarity The National Black Front A transnational perspective Conclusions Notes Chapter 3: High art, black art: One black theatre’s response to racism Introduction Outlaw culture goes mainstream: background of the Vargas nationalization project The mainstreaming of outlaw black culture and the rise of TEN Abdias do Nascimento and the black theatre Notes Chapter 4: Strategies against racism in the age of the military dictatorship The era of silence and the making of new black politics in the era of Brazilian dictatorship: the case of Adalberto Camargo and Brazil-Africa New forms of outlaw cultural Afro-diasporic approaches: reggae and black soul in Brazil Afro-diasporic music in Brazil Notes Chapter 5: The emergence of black politics in political parties The PDT: reforming racial democracy and the rise of Moreno power Quilombismo and institutional politics Celso Pitta and the new black conservative tradition From Gonzalez to Benedita da Silva: reformer from an outlaw tradition Benedita da Silva Notes Conclusion Notes Index