Francine Winddance Twine

Racism in a Racial Democracy

The Maintenance of White Supremacy in Brazil

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first ethnographic study of racism in southeastern Brazil to place the practices of upwardly mobile Afro-Brazilians at the center of analysis. Based on extensive field research and more than fifty life histories with Afro- and Euro-Brazilians, this book analyzes how Brazilians conceptualize and respond to racial disparities. Twine illuminates the obstacles Brazilian activists face when attempting to generate grassroots support for an antiracist movement among the majority of working class Brazilians. Anyone interested in racism and antiracism in Latin America will find this book compelling.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 1997
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 151mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 308g
• ISBN-13: 9780813523651
• ISBN-10: 0813523656
• Artikelnr.: 21903581

Autorenporträt

Twine, Francine Winddance

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Tables
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
2 Vasalia: The Research Site
3 Mapping the Ideological Terrain of Racism: The Social, Sexual,
Socioeconomic, and Semiotic Contours
4 Discourses in Defense of the Racial Democracy
5 Embranquecimento: Aesthetic Ideals and Resistance to Mesticagem
6 Memory: White Inflation and Willful Forgetting
7 Strategic Responses to Racism: Preserving White Supremacy
Appendix A: Interview Schedule
Appendix B: Biographical Data on Interviewees
Notes
Glossary
Bibliography
Index