Race and the Brazilian Body

Race and the Brazilian Body
Author: Jennifer Roth-Gordon
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Total Pages: 244
Release: 2017
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 0520293800

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Brazil's "comfortable racial contradiction"--"Good" appearances : race, language, and citizenship -- Investing in whiteness: middle-class practices of linguistic discipline -- Fears of racial contact : crime, violence, and the struggle over urban space -- Avoiding blackness : the flip side of boa aparência -- Making the mano : the uncomfortable visibility of blackness in politically conscious Brazilian hip hop -- Conclusion : "seeing" race


Race and the Brazilian Body
Language: en
Pages: 244
Authors: Jennifer Roth-Gordon
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Brazil's "comfortable racial contradiction"--"Good" appearances : race, language, and citizenship -- Investing in whiteness: middle-class practices of linguisti
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Language: en
Pages: 337
Authors: Edward E. Telles
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2006-09-25 - Publisher: Princeton University Press

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This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars
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Language: en
Pages: 253
Authors: Kia Caldwell
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2007-01-05 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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For most of the twentieth century, Brazil was widely regarded as a "racial democracy"-a country untainted by the scourge of racism and prejudice. In recent deca
Diploma of Whiteness
Language: en
Pages: 306
Authors: Jerry Dávila
Categories: Education
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003-03-19 - Publisher: Duke University Press

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In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twen
Racism in a Racial Democracy
Language: en
Pages: 196
Authors: France Winddance Twine
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Rutgers University Press

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In Racism in a Racial Democracy, France Winddance Twine asks why Brazilians, particularly Afro-Brazilians, continue to have faith in Brazil's "racial democracy"