Ilê Aiyê in Brazil and the Reinvention of Africa [electronic resource] /
Afolabi, Niyi.author.
Ilê Aiyê redefines itself within shifting political realities of the Brazilian mythic racial paradise. The globalization agenda of the tourism industry places its Africanized strategies in dialectical tension with State's funding. Deploying Yoruba performative cosmology and costumes, the discussion of 'race' is inevitable as Ilê Aiyê questions the economically marginalizing status of Afro-Brazilians.
Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Ilê Aiyê redefines itself within shifting political realities of the Brazilian mythic racial paradise. The globalization agenda of the tourism industry places its Africanized strategies in dialectical tension with State's funding. Deploying Yoruba performative cosmology and costumes, the discussion of 'race' is inevitable as Ilê Aiyê questions the economically marginalizing status of Afro-Brazilians.

Ilê Aiyê (Organization)
Africa-History.
Ethnology-Africa.
America-History.
Arts.
African History.
African Culture.
History of the Americas.
Arts.