Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement Griffith Lauren Miller
Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement Griffith Lauren Miller Capoeira began as a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians. Griffith…
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Graceful Resistance: How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement Griffith Lauren Miller
Capoeira began as a martial art developed by enslaved Afro-Brazilians. Griffith follows practitioners beyond their physical training into social justice activities that illuminate capoeira's strong connection to resistance and subversion. 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.
Day and Juneteenth, organize professional clothing drives for job seekers, and pursue economic and environmental justice in their neighborhoods. As both individuals and communities of capoeiristas, participants march against racial discrimination, celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. For these people, capoeira becomes a type of serious