Griffith, L: Graceful Resistance How Capoeiristas Use Their Art for Activism and Community Engagement

"Griffith provides a rich and convincing account of the often surprising connections between the practices, orientations and 'affective habitus' of capoeira and social justice struggles. This compelling argument is based on years of ethnographic observant participation and countless hours of interviews with diverse practitioners. The end result is an engaging, highly readable, thoroughly enjoyable, yet always seriously scholarly account of capoeira and its place and work in culture and society--an account that is as surprising, dynamic, and graceful as capoeira itself."--Paul Bowman, author of The Invention of Martial Arts: Popular Culture between Asia and America