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Game of Freedom: Mestre Bimba and the Art of Capoeira
Sinopsis :
In this powerful, vibrant biography, award-winning creator
Duncan Tonatiuh sheds light on the legacy of a legendary
capoeira player, Mestre Bimba, who resisted racial oppression
through art and turned a marginalized practice into a global
phenomenonA meia lua whooshed in the air. The strike was
evaded and followed with an a&#250 Two young men were
playing capoeira in the middle of the roda. Bimba wanted to
play, too. Although it is debated when and where
capoeira&#8212anart form that blends martial arts, dance,
acrobatics, music, and spirituality&#8212orginated exactly,
one thing is certain: in the early 20th century, Brazil was the
only country in the world where capoeira was played, and it
was mainly practiced by people of African descent. In 1890,
two years after Brazil officially abolished slavery, the game
was outlawed. Wealthy, lighter-skinned society feared and

looked down on capoeira, seeing it as a game for
malandros&#8212wht people in power called the poor Black
communities they disdained. But in the early 1920s in the city
of Salvador, a man called Bimba would advocate for capoeira,
and those who practiced it, to be treated with dignity and the
respect it deserved. Duncan Tonatiuh&#8217lyrical prose and
beloved illustration style, inspired by pre-Columbian codices,
tell the story of arguably the greatest capoeirista of all time,
who fought to turn a misunderstood, persecuted Afro-Brazilian
activity into a celebrated art practiced by millions around the
world. In 2014, the United Nations Educational Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) named capoeira an
Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, a distinction awarded
because of the game&#8217promotion of social integration
and the memory it holds of the struggle against historical
oppression. From an award-winning author-illustrator, Game of
Freedom is a stirring celebration of solidarity and resistance
through art.