Falling in Love with Bahia & Brazil: On Negritude, Saudade, & Surrender
Falling in Love with Bahia & Brazil: On Negritude, Saudade, & Surrender Naomi Jackson reflects on her own intellectual and cultural journey, finding affirmation in Afro-Brazilian culture, and a new dimension to her love and fascination for the stories of Black people. I have been trying actively to stave off a case of Brazil-o-philia since the early 2000s when I lived in pre-gentrification Brooklyn. Preventive care for me looked like resisting the allure of capoeira classes, which offered the promise of instant friendship and community, endless references to obscure terminology, a pet name (a...
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