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Afro-Paradise: Blackness, Violence, and Performance in Brazil Worthy Kids in a special program commissionedTourists exult in Bahia, Brazil, as a tropical paradise infused with the black population's one of a kind vitality. But the alluring images of smiling black faces and dancing black bodies masks an ugly reality of anti black authoritarian violence. Christen A. Smith argues that the dialectic of glorified representations of black bodies and subsequent state repression reinforces Brazil's racially hierarchal society. Interpreting the violence as both