Race and the Brazilian body : blackness, whiteness, and everyday language in Rio de Janeiro /

"Based on the spontaneous conversations of shantytown youth hanging out on the streets of their neighborhoods and interviews from the comfortable living rooms of the middle class, Race and the Brazilian Body asks how racial ideas about the superiority of whiteness and the inferiority of blackne...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Roth-Gordon, Jennifer, 1972- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
Temas:
Black people > Race identity > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Human skin color > Social aspects > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Black people > Language > Social aspects > Brazil.
Couleur de la peau > Aspect social > Brésil > Rio de Janeiro.
Personnes noires > Identité ethnique > Brésil > Rio de Janeiro.
Personnes noires > Langage > Aspect social > Brésil.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Black people > Race identity
Ethnic relations
Human skin color > Social aspects
Brazil > Ethnic relations.
Brazil
Brazil > Rio de Janeiro
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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