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Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa

Part of the African Histories and Modernities Book Series

DOI: 10.1007/978-1-137-59870-7

ISBN: 978-1-349-88803-0

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Feb 24, 2016

1 - 9 of 9 Chapters

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Carnival in Africa and Its Diaspora

Afolabi, Niyi

Pages: 1 –26

[This chapter interrogates the relationship between the rituals of Carnival, the interactive myths of celebration and renewal, and the complex dynamics of inclusive exclusion that the event represents for Afro-Brazilian marginalized populations as well as for descendants of Africans on the world...
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Emergence of an Afro-Carnival Agency

Afolabi, Niyi

Pages: 27 –48

[The previous chapter laid out the transnational nature of the Ilê Aiyê organization by drawing connections between the Unified Black Movement in Brazil and the civil rights movement in the United States while highlighting the politics of negotiation and resistance that constitutes its cultural...
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Mãe Hilda: Matriarchy, Candomblé, and Ilê Aiyê

Afolabi, Niyi

Pages: 49 –74

[This chapter pays homage to the legacy of the “guardian spirit” or mother of the founder of the organization while assessing the role played by the educational entity within the organization that educates hundreds of Afro-Brazilian children in Salvador, Bahia. Serene, sensitive, solemn, and...
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Aesthetics of Ilê Aiyê’s African(ized) Carnival Costumes

Afolabi, Niyi

Pages: 75 –108

[This chapter examines the different phases of experimentation, consolidation, and sophistication in the emergence of Africanized textiles as an aesthetic symbolism of Ilê Aiyê’s black pride bodily statement. Ilê Aiyê’s emblematic signature lies in its colorful and African-derived Carnival...
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Masquerades of Afro-Femininity, Beauty, and Politics

Afolabi, Niyi

Pages: 109 –129

[Ilê Aiyê's annual Night of Black Beauty is one of the strategies to make black women feel a sense of pride in their natural beauty in Bahia and beyond, in contrast to the European ideal of beauty. This chapter examines the emergence of this tradition in the context of preparing the Ebony Goddess...
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Vovô: The Man, His Vision, His Legacy

Afolabi, Niyi

Pages: 131 –149

[This chapter focuses on the life of the president of Ilê Aiyê as a biocritical study that simultaneously interfaces with the history of the organization. A man full of presence and conscience, a visionary to the core, and an unmistakably charismatic leader, Antônio Carlos dos Santos, otherwise...
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Politics of Afro-Carnival Music

Afolabi, Niyi

Pages: 151 –183

[This chapter analyzes the musical production of Ilê Aiyê in the course of its 40 years of existence via five CDs as well as live performances before and after Carnival. One of the essential dynamics of Ile Aiyê’s belief system centers on its spiritualized music in consonance with its ideological...
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(Un)Masking the Afro-Carnival Organization

Afolabi, Niyi

Pages: 185 –222

[This chapter offers a dispassionate critique of Ilê Aiyê in the context of 40 years of its existence, which provides ample time to assess its accomplishments, limitations, and prognosis for the future. From the directorship to the teachers and the general workers, an invisible hierarchy seems to...
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Conclusion

Afolabi, Niyi

Pages: 223 –229

[When Ilê Aiyê was founded in 1974, it was well before the creation of the MNU in 1978. Despite the contributions of both entities to the advancement of race relations, Afro-Brazilian culture, and dignity, they still need to prime their negotiating strategies in order to move beyond the shameful...

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