{"product_id":"in-light-of-africa-9781442649316","title":"In Light of Africa","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn Light of Africa\u003c\/em\u003e explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the book, Allan Charles Dawson argues that Africa, as both a symbol and a geographical and historical place, is vital to understanding the wide range of identities and ideas about racial consciousness that exist in Bahia’s Afro-Brazilian communities.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn his ethnographic research Dawson follows the idea of “Africa” from the city of Salvador to the West African coast and back to the hinterlands of the Bahian interior. Along the way, he encounters West African entrepreneurs, Afrobeat musicians, devotees of the Afro-Brazilian religion \u003cem\u003eCandomblé\u003c\/em\u003e, professors of the Yoruba language, and hardscrabble farmers and ranchers, each of whom engages with the “idea of Africa” in their own personal way.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1: Blackness and Africanity in Brazil and Elsewhere  Chapter 2: West African Cultural Brokers in Northeast Brazil  Chapter 3: Manifestations of Afro-Brazilian Blackness  Chapter 4: Blackness in the Bahian Sertao  Chapter 5: Conclusions  Notes  Bibliography","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49408372146519,"sku":"9781442649316","price":47.7,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781442649316.jpg?v=1730502656","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/in-light-of-africa-9781442649316","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}