Brazil’s Two Africas, or which Africa to find in what Brazil?
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/dl.v9i13.113604Keywords:
Race, racism, Brazil, Africa, Racial democracy, whiteningAbstract
The article investigates the idea of Africa as central to the
imagining of the Brazilian nation. It agues that the popular beliefs
and the black movement differ significantly in their views of
Brazil as well as the images of Africa they each use to explain the
place of black people in the New World. Thereby the meaning of
both Brazil and Africa are a matter of conflict depending on
whether Brazil is seen to be a racial democracy or fraught with
structural racism, and whether Africa is a place of famine, civil
war and deceases having lost its past glory or in fact a glorious
place of proud kings and queen. Each picture of Africa and Brazil
connotes different positions for black Brazilians. The picture is
further complicated by the Roots Tourism from North America
recombining the elements from each to create a place of origin, an
Africa in Brazil.
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