PARA AFRICANO VER: INTERCÂMBIOS AFRICANO-BAIANOS NA REINVENÇÃO DA DEMOCRACIA RACIAL, 1961-63
The political, cultural, and intellectual conjuncture of the early 1960s in Brazil (and in the Atlantic world more broadly) generated new public formulations of the nature of Brazil's connections to Africa, and concurrently, of the nature of Brazil's own Africanness and racial inclusivenes...
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| description | The political, cultural, and intellectual conjuncture of the early 1960s in Brazil (and in the Atlantic world more broadly) generated new public formulations of the nature of Brazil's connections to Africa, and concurrently, of the nature of Brazil's own Africanness and racial inclusiveness. Though many scholars have focused on the ways that this particular vision of Brazil's African identity served the political project of national and local governments, it emerged out of a complex convergence of projects and agendas, in which Africans and Brazilians of African descent played key roles. This article traces the unexpected processes by which these diverse groups came together to highlight Brazil¿s Africanness in the early 1960s, a moment that marked the high point of celebrations of a potentially inclusive Brazilian racial democracy, before both the onset of military dictatorship and the dismissal of racial democracy as myth. Using the story of the 1963 official visit to Brazil of Romana da Conceição, a Brazilian of African descent who resettled to Africa in 1900, the article seeks to analyze the political implications of this moment as it was experienced by many involved: in terms that encompass the possibilities as well as the limitations that renewed Atlantic ties provided African-descended Brazilians in their quest to define their citizenship and belonging in Brazil. Finally, in so doing, it argues for an understanding of the Atlantic world that extends past the traditional temporal boundary of the mid-nineteenth century, to include the actions of individuals- and of post-colonial nation-states-well into the twentieth. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d8d3a0fa1525461ab9fe9a9e48592bc42022-12-21T22:40:42ZengUniversidade Federal da Bahia - Centro de Estudos Afro-OrientaisAfro-Ásia0002-05911981-14112011-01-014497150PARA AFRICANO VER: INTERCÂMBIOS AFRICANO-BAIANOS NA REINVENÇÃO DA DEMOCRACIA RACIAL, 1961-63Paulina L. AlbertoThe political, cultural, and intellectual conjuncture of the early 1960s in Brazil (and in the Atlantic world more broadly) generated new public formulations of the nature of Brazil's connections to Africa, and concurrently, of the nature of Brazil's own Africanness and racial inclusiveness. Though many scholars have focused on the ways that this particular vision of Brazil's African identity served the political project of national and local governments, it emerged out of a complex convergence of projects and agendas, in which Africans and Brazilians of African descent played key roles. This article traces the unexpected processes by which these diverse groups came together to highlight Brazil¿s Africanness in the early 1960s, a moment that marked the high point of celebrations of a potentially inclusive Brazilian racial democracy, before both the onset of military dictatorship and the dismissal of racial democracy as myth. Using the story of the 1963 official visit to Brazil of Romana da Conceição, a Brazilian of African descent who resettled to Africa in 1900, the article seeks to analyze the political implications of this moment as it was experienced by many involved: in terms that encompass the possibilities as well as the limitations that renewed Atlantic ties provided African-descended Brazilians in their quest to define their citizenship and belonging in Brazil. Finally, in so doing, it argues for an understanding of the Atlantic world that extends past the traditional temporal boundary of the mid-nineteenth century, to include the actions of individuals- and of post-colonial nation-states-well into the twentieth.http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=77022104003 |
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| title | PARA AFRICANO VER: INTERCÂMBIOS AFRICANO-BAIANOS NA REINVENÇÃO DA DEMOCRACIA RACIAL, 1961-63 |
| title_full | PARA AFRICANO VER: INTERCÂMBIOS AFRICANO-BAIANOS NA REINVENÇÃO DA DEMOCRACIA RACIAL, 1961-63 |
| title_fullStr | PARA AFRICANO VER: INTERCÂMBIOS AFRICANO-BAIANOS NA REINVENÇÃO DA DEMOCRACIA RACIAL, 1961-63 |
| title_full_unstemmed | PARA AFRICANO VER: INTERCÂMBIOS AFRICANO-BAIANOS NA REINVENÇÃO DA DEMOCRACIA RACIAL, 1961-63 |
| title_short | PARA AFRICANO VER: INTERCÂMBIOS AFRICANO-BAIANOS NA REINVENÇÃO DA DEMOCRACIA RACIAL, 1961-63 |
| title_sort | para africano ver intercambios africano baianos na reinvencao da democracia racial 1961 63 |
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