From the Publisher
“Wesolowski
mobilizes decades of movement experience—through diverse styles of physical
training as well as through diverse cultural contexts—to explore the convivência
of capoeira: the ways in which it choreographs relationships across difference
(of race, class, gender, nation, and more). Through her always engaging and
often moving personal narrative, one slowly forms an understanding of the
nuances and complexities of that dance.”—Barbara Browning, author of Samba:
Resistance in Motion
“A
page-turner and a great example of ethnographic writing that shows not only how
an art form has changed over time but how people also change with art.”—Gladys
Mitchell-Walthour, author of The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and
Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil
“In Wesolowski’s love letter to capoeira, we see, hear, and feel the convivência that emerges through extended intersubjective and embodied dialogue. Capoeira appears not only as a portal through which practitioners imagine and bring into being alternative worlds, but also as a complex and transnational infrastructure, one that travels through people and through which people travel. Ethnographic memoir at its best!”—Deborah A. Thomas, author of Political Life in the Wake of the Plantation: Sovereignty, Witnessing, Repair
