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Graceful Resistance - How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement (Paperback) Loot Price: R557
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Graceful Resistance - How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement (Paperback): Lauren Miller Griffith

Graceful Resistance - How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement (Paperback)

Lauren Miller Griffith

Series: Interp Culture New Millennium

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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.

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Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of origin: United States
Series: Interp Culture New Millennium
Release date: June 2023
First published: 2023
Authors: Lauren Miller Griffith
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN-13: 978-0-252-08719-6
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Combat sports & self-defence > Oriental martial arts > General
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LSN: 0-252-08719-4
Barcode: 9780252087196

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