The Person of the Slave: Social Death and Political Imaginaries of the African Diaspora in Brazil

About the author

Osmundo Pinho. Osmundo Pinho is from Salvador da Bahia and holds a PhD in Social Sciences (UNICAMP, 2003). He teaches at the Federal University of Recôncavo da Bahia and in the Postgraduate Program in Ethnic and African Studies at the Federal University of Bahia. Full profile ›

This chapter appears in Bondage

In this groundbreaking book Osmundo Pinho makes an important contribution to Black Studies transnationally through placing Afro-pessimism in conversation with “Ancestrality,” an important theoretical concept emerging from the field of Black Studies in Brazil. In the book, Pinho argues that social death and ancestry coexist, are in tension, and are both transformations.

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