In this Book
- Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University Press of Florida
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.
Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-11
- 2. Slavery in Salvador
- pp. 28-37
- Conclusion
- pp. 155-156
- References
- pp. 157-164