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Mama Africa

Reinventing Blackness in Bahia

Автор: Patricia de Santana Pinho

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Корици: С меки корици

Издател: Duke University Press

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Often called the "most African" part of Brazil, the northeastern state of Bahia has the country's la...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Patricia de Santana Pinho

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2010

страници

280

EAN

9780822346463

ISBN

082234646X

Enbook ID

04939098

Издател

Duke University Press

Теглоt

431

Размери

156 x 235 x 20

Пълно описание

Often called the "most African" part of Brazil, the northeastern state of Bahia has the country's largest Afro-descendant population and a black culture renowned for its vibrancy. In "Mama Africa", Patricia de Santana Pinho examines the meanings of Africa in Bahian constructions of blackness. Combining insights from anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies, Pinho considers how Afro-Bahian cultural groups, known as blocos afro, conceive of Africanness and blackness, and themselves in relation to both. "Mama Africa" is a translated, updated, and expanded edition of an award-winning book published in Brazil in 2004. Central to the book, and to Bahian constructions of blackness, is what Pinho calls "the myth of Mama Africa", the idea that Africa exists as a nurturing spirit inside every black person. Pinho explores how Bahian cultural production influences and is influenced by black diasporic cultures and the idealization of Africa - to the extent that Bahia draws African American tourists wanting to learn about their heritage. Analyzing the conceptions of blackness produced by the blocos afro, she describes how Africa is re-inscribed on the body through clothes, hairstyles, and jewellery; once demeaned, blackness is reclaimed as a source of beauty and pride. Turning to the body's interior, Pinho explains that the myth of Mama Africa implies that black appearances have corresponding black essences. Musical and dance abilities are seen as naturally belonging to black people, and these traits are often believed to be transmitted by blood. Pinho argues that such essentialized ideas of blackness render black culture increasingly vulnerable to exploitation by the state and commercial interests. She contends that the myth of "Mama Africa", while informing oppositional black identities, overlaps with the constraining notion of Bahianness promoted by the government and the tourist industry.