Elisa Larkin Nascimento

The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil

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Produktbeschreibung

An examination of how racial and gender hierarchies are intertwined in Brazil

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Temple University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: August 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 218mm x 142mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781592133512
• ISBN-10: 1592133517
• Artikelnr.: 26835960

Autorenporträt

Elisa Larkin Nascimento is Director of IPEAFRO Afro-Brazilian Studies and Research Institute, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments 
List of Tables 
List of Abbreviations 
Introduction to the English Edition 
Preface – Kabengele Munanga 
Introduction 
1. Identity, Race, and Gender 
2. Brazil and the Making of "Virtual Whiteness" 
3. Constructing and Desconstructing the "Crazy Creole" 
4. Another History: Afro-Brazilian Agency (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro,
1914-1960) 
5. The Black Experimental Theater: Plots, Texts, and Actors 
Glossary of Brazilian Words 
Bibliographical References