Description
Book Synopsis2024 Roberto Reis Book Prize, First Book category, Brazilian Studies Association
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
Table of Contents
- 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
