| Description |
1 online resource (234 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
"Haiti is here / Haiti is not here" -- Babaluaiye: Diaspora as pandemic -- Compact world -- Lutte contre les moustiques: The question of irony -- African medicine men -- Voodoo economics -- Mixing bloods: The L.A. riots -- Cyberspace, voodo sex, and retroviral identity -- Benetton: Blood is big business -- Penetrable selves ("Paris is burning") -- The closed body |
| Summary |
Barbara Browning follows the trail of ""infectious rhythm"" from the ecstatic percussion of a Brazilian carnival group to the eerily silent video image of the LAPD beating a man like a drum. Throughout, she identifies the metaphoric strain of contagion which both celebrates the diasporic spread of African culture, and serves as the justification for its brutal repression. The essays in this book examine both the vital and violent ways in which recent associations have been made between the AIDS pandemic and African diasporic cultural practices, including religious worship, music, dance |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Black people.
|
|
Culture diffusion.
|
|
Race relations.
|
|
Black People
|
|
cultural diffusion.
|
|
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
|
|
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
|
|
Black people
|
|
Culture diffusion
|
|
Race relations
|
|
Kultur
|
|
Verbreitung
|
|
Afrika
|
|
Schwärze
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781136051821 |
|
1136051821 |
|
1299694861 |
|
9781299694866 |
|
9780203611074 |
|
0203611071 |
|
9781136051982 |
|
1136051988 |
|
9781136051906 |
|
1136051902 |
|
