... Afro-Brazilian Cachoeira Pelourinho postracial racial paradise ...

... global pop Afro-Brazilian Latin American politics black cultural politics music circulation ...

... In August 2018, scant media attention was given to the dozens of Afro-religious community members, representing a variety of Afro-Brazilian religious traditions, who occupied the municipal legislative chamber in Rio de Janeiro. They did so to defend animal sacrifice, which is sanctioned...

... relations. The chapter goes on to examine the widespread notion that Afro-Brazilians have been able to retain African traditions in ways that Black Americans have not. Through the close reading of travel narratives, analyses of ethnographic interviews with expatriates, and participant-observation of tours...

... Houston’s songs, and tangled currents of race and nation made a group of Afro-Brazilians return to Houston’s work at the turn to the twentieth century. Houston’s interpretations reveal the overlapping projects of U.S. and European empire, U.S. black cultural politics, Brazilian neoracial democracy...

... Despite popular perception, racial capitalism and indentured labor fail to create a neatly closed or coherent system. Rio’s portside areas have been at the center of privately led renovation projects since 2011. Paralleling these efforts, Afro-Brazilian memorialization processes involving...

... Rio de Janeiro to Paris and New York, hopes for racial uplift and unity inspired the African American performer and activist Etta Moten Barnett to play Houston’s songs, and tangled currents of race and nation made a group of Afro-Brazilians return to Houston’s work at the turn to the twentieth century...

... This chapter highlights some of the difficulties of an academic ethnography in the Pelourinho. It seeks to establish a position from which to represent the Afro-Brazilian women at the center of the story of the post–World War II Pelourinho without repeating the tension between pathologization...

..., racial capitalism and indentured labor fail to create a neatly closed or coherent system. Rio’s portside areas have been at the center of privately led renovation projects since 2011. Paralleling these efforts, Afro-Brazilian memorialization processes involving the ruins of the Valongo, the hemisphere’s...

..., and thus their importance to the nation as a political project. This struggle for everyday inclusion threatens to expand existing definitions of the Afro-Brazilian, the modern, and the moral even as middle- and upper-class Bahians continue to define themselves in opposition to the Pelourinho and to its...

... as they confronted and exposed the social origins, ideologies, and weak-points of emergent hard-right political regimes. Rio’s social movements, media influencers, community organizers, cultural figures, student organizations, Afro-Brazilian religious groupings, and a broad front of new feminist, ecology, Black...

... organizations that have emerged in recent years. Maracanã recognition government Indigenous people sovereignty In August 2018, scant media attention was given to the dozens of Afro-religious community members, representing a variety of Afro-Brazilian religious traditions, who occupied...