Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil by Henson, Bryce

Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil

2024 Roberto Reis Book Prize, First Book category, Brazilian Studies Association How disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop...
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Author: Bryce Henson
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Language: English
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Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil by Henson, Bryce

Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil

Dhs. 268.38

Emergent Quilombos: Black Life and Hip-Hop in Brazil

Dhs. 268.38
Author: Bryce Henson
Format: Paperback
Language: English

2024 Roberto Reis Book Prize, First Book category, Brazilian Studies Association

How disenfranchised Black Brazilians use hip-hop to reinvigorate the Black radical tradition.

Known as Black Rome, Salvador da Bahia, Brazil, is a predominantly Black city. The local art, food, and dance are closely linked to the population's African roots. Yet many Black Brazilian residents are politically and economically disenfranchised. Bryce Henson details a culture of resistance and activism that has emerged in response, expressed through hip-hop and the social relations surrounding it.

Based on years of ethnographic research, Emergent Quilombos illuminates how Black hip-hop artists and their circles contest structures of anti-Black racism by creating safe havens and alternative social, cultural, and political systems that serve Black people. These artists valorize and empower marginalized Black peoples through song, aesthetics, media, visual art, and community action that emphasize diasporic connections, ancestrality, and Black identifications in opposition to the anti-Black Brazilian nation. In the process, Henson argues, the Salvador hip-hop scene has reinvigorated and reterritorialized a critical legacy of Black politicocultural resistance: quilombos, maroon communities of Black fugitives who refused slavery as a way of life, gathered away from the spaces of their oppression, protected their communities, and nurtured Black life in all its possibilities.



Author: Bryce Henson
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 01/09/2024
Pages: 280
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.90lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9781477328101


Review Citation(s):
Choice 06/01/2024

About the Author

Bryce Henson is an assistant professor of media, culture, and identity in the Department of Communication and Journalism and associate faculty in the Africana Studies Program at Texas A&M University.


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