Celina De Sá
Biographic Data
| ID | 122707 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Celina De Sá |
| GIVEN NAMES | Celina |
| FAMILY NAME | De Sá |
| SIGNATURE | DE SÁ C |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6066-4242 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
The Obscuring Effect: Whiteness in the celebration of black performance in Senegal
The Afro-Paradox: Diasporic Chauvinism and Cultural Expertise in Afro-Brazilian Capoeira
Increasingly, Brazilian experts of capoeira-an Afro-Brazilian combat game-travel to African cities for an imagined return to the sites of capoeira's origins, as well as to train African students. Focusing on a cultural festival in Abidjan, I analyze capoeira cultural exchange events across West Africa through the anthropological lenses of expertise and racial analysis. These exchanges feature displays of Brazilian nationalism embodied by West Afr…
Playing with Origins: Racial Self‐Making and Embodying History in Togolese Capoeira
This article discusses how contemporary expressive cultural projects in Lomé, Togo, highlight practices of racial self-making emerging from urban African contexts through a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians in colonial Brazil. This specific case analyzes Nukunu, the country's first capoeira group, and their ideological constructions of self, people, and historical time. Through capoeira—as a practice that I suggest makes intervent…
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Playing with Origins: Racial Self‐Making and Embodying History in Togolese Capoeira
This article discusses how contemporary expressive cultural projects in Lomé, Togo, highlight practices of racial self-making emerging from urban African contexts through a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians in colonial Brazil. This specific case analyzes Nukunu, the country's first capoeira group, and their ideological constructions of self, people, and historical time. Through capoeira—as a practice that I suggest makes intervent…
The Afro-Paradox: Diasporic Chauvinism and Cultural Expertise in Afro-Brazilian Capoeira
Increasingly, Brazilian experts of capoeira-an Afro-Brazilian combat game-travel to African cities for an imagined return to the sites of capoeira's origins, as well as to train African students. Focusing on a cultural festival in Abidjan, I analyze capoeira cultural exchange events across West Africa through the anthropological lenses of expertise and racial analysis. These exchanges feature displays of Brazilian nationalism embodied by West Afr…
The Obscuring Effect: Whiteness in the celebration of black performance in Senegal
Art (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Sports, Gender, and Society (2 works) · African history and culture studies (1 works) · Afro-Caribbean (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works)