Slavery Unseen : Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History /
In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition trial documents to travel accounts and li...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2018.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : secrets, silence, and sexual erasures in Brazilian slavery and history
- The racial and sexual paradoxes of Brazilian slavery and national identity
- Illegible violence : the rape and sexual abuse of male slaves
- The white mistress and the slave woman : seduction, violence, and exploitation
- Social whiteness : Black intraracial violence and the boundaries of Black freedom
- O diabo preto (the Negro devil) : the myth of the Black homosexual predator in the age of social hygiene
- Afterword : seeing the unseen : the life and afterlives of Ch/Xica da Silva.