Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
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.
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Afro-Brazilian political organization in Salvador, the majority-black capital
of Brazil's Bahia state, and sets it within such change in Brazil and the
African diaspora. . . . Contributes to comparative studies of the rise of black
consciousness. . . . Recommended."--Choice "Synthesizes the great
complexity of the history of what has been called 'the Brazilian black
movement' with a special focus on the most visible location of blackness in
that country: Salvador and the state of Bahia."--Latin American Research Review "Of great interest to
scholars and students of the African diaspora and Brazilian politics."--The
Americas "Without a doubt, this book is an important
contribution to the emerging literature on the black public sphere, and black
politics vis-à-vis racialized civil society in the African diaspora. . . . [This
book] stands out as an engaging and serious attempt to recognize and understand
the roadblocks blacks face in their (our) attempt to hold a civic existence."--National
Political Science Review
