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Imagining the Mulatta : Blackness in U.S. and Brazilian Media /

"Brazil markets itself as a racially mixed utopia. The United States prefers the term melting pot. Both nations have long used the image of the mulatta to push skewed cultural narratives. Highlighting the prevalence of mixed-race women of African and European descent, the two countries claim to...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Mitchell, Jasmine, 1981- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foundations of the Mulata and Mulatta in the United States and Brazil
  • Framing Blackness and Mixedness: The Politics of Racial Identity in the Celebrity Texts of Jennifer Beals, Halle Berry, and Camila Pitanga
  • The Morena and the Mulata in Brazilian Telenovelas: Containing Blackness in a Racial Democracy
  • Reinventing the Mulatta in the United States for the 2000s: Celebrating Diversity amid the Haunting of Blackness
  • Remixing Mixedness: U.S. Media Imaginings of Brazil and Brazil's Bid for Rio 2016.