Graceful Resistance
How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement
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Product details:
- Edition number First Edition
- Publisher University of Illinois Press
- Date of Publication 20 June 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9780252087196
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages206 pages
- Size 229x152x18 mm
- Weight 254 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 6 black & white photographs 472
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Long description:
Capoeira began as a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians. Today, the practice incorporates song, dance, acrobatics, and theatrical improvisation-and leads many participants into activism.
Lauren Miller Griffith’s extensive participant observation with multiple capoeira groups informs her ethnography of capoeiristas--both individuals and groups--in the United States. Griffith follows practitioners beyond their physical training into social justice activities that illuminate capoeira’s strong connection to resistance and subversion. As both individuals and communities of capoeiristas, participants march against racial discrimination, celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Juneteenth, organize professional clothing drives for job seekers, and pursue economic and environmental justice in their neighborhoods. For these people, capoeira becomes a type of serious leisure that contributes to personal growth, a sense of belonging, and an overall sense of self, while also imposing duties and obligations.
An innovative look at capoeira in America, Graceful Resistance reveals how the practicing of an art can catalyze action and transform communities.
MoreTable of Contents:
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. The Making of a Politicized Art
Chapter 2. Social Justice and Resistance as Analytical Frames
Chapter 3. Becoming a Capoeirista
Chapter 4. Capoeira’s Pedagogies of Resistance
Chapter 5. The Capoeira Community
Chapter 6. Group Actions
Chapter 7. Jogue Pra LÁ: Individual Applications
Chapter 8. Challenges to the Social Justice Perspective
Chapter 9. Boa Viagem
Glossary
Notes
References
Index
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