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Graceful Resistance - Lauren Miller Griffith

Graceful Resistance

How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement
Buch | Softcover
206 Seiten
2023
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
978-0-252-08719-6 (ISBN)
CHF 41,90 inkl. MwSt
Capoeira began as a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians. Today, the practice incorporates song, dance, acrobatics, and theatrical improvisation—and leads many participants into activism.

Lauren Miller Griffith’s extensive participant observation with multiple capoeira groups informs her ethnography of capoeiristas--both individuals and groups--in the United States. Griffith follows practitioners beyond their physical training into social justice activities that illuminate capoeira’s strong connection to resistance and subversion. As both individuals and communities of capoeiristas, participants march against racial discrimination, celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, organize professional clothing drives for job seekers, and pursue economic and environmental justice in their neighborhoods. For these people, capoeira becomes a type of serious leisure that contributes to personal growth, a sense of belonging, and an overall sense of self, while also imposing duties and obligations.

An innovative look at capoeira in America, Graceful Resistance reveals how the practicing of an art can catalyze action and transform communities.

Lauren Miller Griffith is an associate professor of anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology & Social Work at Texas Tech University. She is the author of In Search of Legitimacy: How Outsiders Become Part of the Afro-Brazilian Capoeira Tradition.

Acknowledgments Introduction

Chapter 1. The Making of a Politicized Art

Chapter 2. Social Justice and Resistance as Analytical Frames

Chapter 3. Becoming a Capoeirista

Chapter 4. Capoeira’s Pedagogies of Resistance

Chapter 5. The Capoeira Community

Chapter 6. Group Actions

Chapter 7. Jogue Pra Lá: Individual Applications

Chapter 8. Challenges to the Social Justice Perspective

Chapter 9. Boa Viagem

Glossary

Notes

References

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Interp Culture New Millennium
Zusatzinfo 6 black & white photographs
Verlagsort Baltimore
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 254 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Sport Kampfsport / Selbstverteidigung
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-252-08719-4 / 0252087194
ISBN-13 978-0-252-08719-6 / 9780252087196
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