Emergent Quilombos
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How disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition. Known as Black Rome, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, is a predominantly Black city. The local art, food, and dance are closely linked to the population’s African roots. Yet many Black Brazilian residents are politically and economically disenfranchised. Bryce Henson details a culture of resistance and activism that has emerged in response, expressed through hip-hop and the social relations surrounding it.
Based on years of ethnographic research, Emergent Quilombos illuminates how Black hip-hop artists and their circles contest structures of anti-Black racism by creating safe havens and alternative social, cultural, and political systems that serve Black people. These artists valorize and empower marginalized Black peoples through song, aesthetics, media, visual art, and community action that emphasize diasporic connections, ancestrality, and Black identifications in opposition to the anti-Black Brazilian nation. In the process, Henson argues, the Salvador hip-hop scene has reinvigorated and reterritorialized a critical legacy of Black politicocultural resistance: the quilombo, maroon communities of Black fugitives who refused slavery as a way of life, gathered away from the spaces of their oppression, protected their communities, and nurtured Black life in all its possibilities. How disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition.Bryce Henson is an assistant professor of media, culture, and identity in the Department of Communication and Journalism and associate faculty in the Africana Studies Program at Texas A&M University.
- Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. Racial Conditions
Chapter 2. Hip-Hop Aquilombamento
Chapter 3. Black Spaces of Culture
Chapter 4. Intimacy
Chapter 5. Artifice
Chapter 6. Mediating Quilombo Politics
Chapter 7. Real Women
Coda: A Diasporic Love Letter
Notes
Reference List
Index
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| Dimensions | 1 × 6 × 9 in |
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