Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

Kwame Dixon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

188 Seiten

2022
University Press of Florida (Verlag)
978-0-8130-6878-7 (ISBN)

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Brazil’s black population, one of the oldest and largest in the Americas, mobilized a vibrant antiracism movement from grassroots origins when the country transitioned from dictatorship to democracy in the 1980s. Campaigning for political equality after centuries of deeply engrained racial hierarchies, African-descended groups have been working to unlock democratic spaces that were previously closed to them.

Using the city of Salvador as a case study, Kwame Dixon tracks the emergence of black civil society groups and their political projects: claiming new citizenship rights, testing new anti-discrimination and affirmative action measures, reclaiming rural and urban land, and increasing political representation. This book is one of the first to explore how Afro-Brazilians have influenced politics and democratic institutions in the contemporary period.

Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Kwame Dixon is assistant professor of African American studies at Syracuse University. He is coeditor of Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America.

Erscheinungsdatum	14.05.2022
Verlagsort	Florida
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	151 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Sozialgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8130-6878-9 / 0813068789
ISBN-13	978-0-8130-6878-7 / 9780813068787
Zustand	Neuware