Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the reinvention of Africa / Niyi Afolabi.
Afolabi, Niyi, author.
2016
GT4233.A2 .A69 2016eb
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Title Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the reinvention of Africa / Niyi Afolabi.
Author Afolabi, Niyi, author.
ISBN 9781137598707 (electronic book)
1137598700 (electronic book)
9781137578174
Published New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource : illustrations.
Call Number GT4233.A2 .A69 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 394.250981
Summary Ilê Aiyê redefines itself within shifting political realities of the Brazilian mythic racial paradise. The globalization agenda of the tourism industry places its Africanized strategies in dialectical tension with State's funding. the discussion of 'race' is inevitable as Ilê Aiyê questions the economically marginalizing status of Afro-Brazilians.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description Description based on print version record.
Series African histories and modernities.
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