The practice of capoeira

Diasporic black culture in Canada

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2146256
AutoresJ Joseph (0000-0002-4018-2908, autor correspondente)
Ano2012
Volume35
Fascículo6
Páginas1078-1095
Data de publicação2012-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEthnic and Racial Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0141-9870 • E-ISSN: 1466-4356
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01419870.2012.661866
OpenAlexW2064276237
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas28
Referências citadas21

This article draws on ethnographic research with Canadians who practise the Afro-Brazilian martial art, capoeira, to discuss, renew and perform African heritage, black circulating cultures and Canadian nationalism. I make several incursions into Paul Gilroy's theory of the Black Atlantic. First I draw attention farther north to Canada to show that diaspora cultures reference an 'elsewhere' as they also come to represent 'here'; capoeira is used to engage with local Aboriginal and multiculturalism politics. I overcome the little attention that has been paid in Gilroy-influenced black cultural studies to embodiment, corporeality and the particular movements of the sporting body, which are deployed to preserve and share diaspora cultures. This examination of the micropolitics of sport reveals the past, 'tradition' and 'African' symbols and heritage (roots), along with antiphony, innovation and transnational circulation (routes) as essential elements of black expressive cultures. Keywords: BrazilCanadacapoeiraTorontomartial artdiaspora Notes 1. These movements are better discovered visually than verbally. Each can be seen on http://www.youtube.com

Diaspora · Media studies · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Diversity and Impact of Dance · Gender Studies · Martial Arts: Techniques, Psychology, and Education · Physical education and sports games research