Kwame Dixon is assistant professor of African American studies at Syracuse University, USA. He is the coeditor of Comparative Perspectives on Afro-Latin America.
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"Details the slow rise of 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-a-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