Slavery unseen : sex, power, and violence in Brazilian history /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Aidoo, Lamonte, 1986- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
Series:Latin America otherwise.
Subjects:
Slavery > Brazil > History.
Enslaved persons > Abuse of > Brazil.
Slaveholders > Sexual behavior > Brazil.
Esclaves > Violence envers > Brésil.
Propriétaires d'esclaves > Sexualité > Brésil.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
HISTORY / Latin America / South America
Race relations
Slavery
Enslaved persons > Abuse of
Ethnische Beziehungen
Homosexualität
Sexueller Missbrauch
Sklaverei
Brazil > Race relations > History.
Brazil
Brasilien
Brazil.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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