In Light of Africa: Globalizing Blackness in Northeast Brazil (Anthropological Horizons)

In Light of Africa: Globalizing Blackness in Northeast Brazil (Anthropological Horizons)In Light of Africa explores how the idea of Africa as a real place, an imagined homeland, and a metaphor for Black identity is used in the cultural politics of the Brazilian state of Bahia. In the book, Allan Charles Dawson argues that Africa, as both a symbol and a geographical and historical place, is vital to understanding the wide range of identities and ideas about racial consciousness that exist in Bahia's Afro Brazilian communities. In his

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