Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
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Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

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Afro-Politics and Civil Society in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil

About this book

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.


Publication of the paperback edition made possible by a Sustaining the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. List of Figures
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. Introduction
  9. 1. The Political and Social Landscape of Salvador da Bahia
  10. 2. Slavery in Salvador
  11. 3. The Contradictions of Cultural Politics in Salvador da Bahia: 1970s to the Present
  12. 4. The Emergence of the Movimento Negro Unificado: The Rise of a New Racial Politics
  13. 5. Affirmative Action and Education in Brazil
  14. 6. Black Education, Affirmative Action, and Citizenship in Salvador da Bahia: The Steve Biko Cultural Institute and the Pré-vestibular para Negros e Carentes Movement
  15. 7. Black Electoral Politics in Salvador from the 1970s to the 2000s
  16. Conclusion
  17. References
  18. Index
  19. About the Author