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Item Details
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AFRO-POLITICS AND CIVIL SOCIETY IN SALVADOR DA BAHIA, BRAZIL
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| By: |
Kwame Dixon |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£76.50 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0813062616 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780813062617 |
| Publisher: |
UNIVERSITY PRESS OF FLORIDA |
| Pub. date: |
30 December, 2015 |
| Pages: |
176 |
| Description: |
Using the city of Salvador as a case study, Kwame Dixon tracks the emergence of black civil society groups and their political projects, including claiming new citizenship rights, testing new anti-discrimination and affirmative action measures, and increasing political representation. This book is one of the first to explore how Afro-Brazilians have influenced politics and democratic institutions. |
| Synopsis: |
Brazil's black population, one of the oldest and largest in the Americas, mobilized a vibrant antiracism movement from grassroots origins when the country transitioned from dictatorship to democracy in the 1980s. Campaigning for political equality after centuries of deeply engrained racial hierarchies, African-descended groups have been working to unlock democratic spaces that were previously closed to them.Using the city of Salvador as a case study, Kwame Dixon tracks the emergence of black civil society groups and their political projects: claiming new citizenship rights, testing new anti-discrimination and affirmative action measures, reclaiming rural and urban land, and increasing political representation. This book is one of the first to explore how Afro-Brazilians have influenced politics and democratic institutions in the contemporary period. |
| Illustrations: |
16 illustrations |
| Publication: |
US |
| Imprint: |
University Press of Florida |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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