... communities. Seen through an ethnographic approach, the political performance of Afro-religious people has given rise to a contemporary model of activism based on sociocultural diversity of religious practices. Such a scenario enabled a reconfiguration of the global fight against racism, not aligning entirely...

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... of religious practices. Such a scenario enabled a reconfiguration of the global fight against racism, not aligning entirely with other Black Brazilian movements but remaining in dialogue, more generally, with Black movements in North America. Afro-religious terreiro communities religious racism Black...

... the nation-state becomes a displaced site of racism, acceptable violence, and erasure. Because this logic in Obama’s speeches and writings resonate with Richard Rorty’s arguments about the relationship between pride and shame, I offer a comparison with Rorty’s provocative text, Achieving Our Country...

... at several examples. I examine, for instance, the anxieties around Obama’s citizenship and supposed links to Islam. I show how anti-Arab and anti-Muslim resentment constitute a “displaced” form of anti-black racism. The language of progress obscures how Obama’s ascendancy required him to disassociate his...