Afro-Paradise

Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil

"Pare Para Pensar" performance by Grupo de Teatro Choque Cultural
Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
2003

Videography by Christen A. Smith

 

 

 

 

 

Christen A. Smith is Assistant Professor of African and African Diaspora Studies and Anthropology at The University of Texas at Austin.

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