Fighting Exclusion with Culture and Art: Examples from Brazil

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

3-2009

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872808099727

Abstract

This article demonstrates that artistic activity is an important tool for deepening democracy, because it provides a vehicle for the excluded to reach the public sphere, thus making it more heterogeneous. As artists, they become active citizens and step out of the invisibility into which racism and exclusion has forced them.

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Citation / Publisher Attribution

International Social Work, v. 52, issue 2, p. 155-166

https://doi.org/10.1177/0020872808099727

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