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Book SynopsisBased on spontaneous conversations of shantytown youth hanging out on the streets of their neighborhoods and interviews from the comfortable living rooms of the middle class, the author shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro's residents across race and class lines.
Trade Review"By highlighting new challenges and forms of resistance to racist ideologies, Roth-Gordon makes an outstanding contribution to a global dialogue on race that illustrates the hegemonic forces at play that maintain racial inequalities." * American Ethnologist *
"Although decades of ink have already been spilled on the still contentious issue of racism in Brazil (and Latin America more broadly), Roth-
Gordon’s book points to fruitful areas for future research." * Anthropological Quarterly *
" A must-read for scholars studying race and politics in Brazil." * Journal of Anthropological Research *
"Roth-Gordon offers important in-sights in fewer than two hundred pages of clearly articulated text. . .the book is a rare pedagogical gem." * General Anthropology *
"A remarkably accessible book that will be of great interest to scholars of race in Latin America who wish to incorporate an attention to language and practice to theirown work. The book’ s clear explanations of how the research was organized and executed likewise make it an excellent teaching tool for undergraduates and graduate students." * Journal of Latin American Studies *
"[Roth-Gordon] presents [her findings] in an accessible narrative that would provide compelling reading for an undergraduate course on race or Brazil and might help us all better understand why famously 'cordial' Brazilians recently elected an uncordially racist president." * Latin American Research Review *
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. BRAZIL'S "COMFORTABLE RACIAL CONTRADICTION" 2. "GOOD" APPEARANCES: RACE, LANGUAGE, AND CITIZENSHIP 3. INVESTING IN WHITENESS: MIDDLE-CLASS PRACTICES OF LINGUISTIC DISCIPLINE 4. FEARS OF RACIAL CONTACT: CRIME, VIOLENCE, AND THE STRUGGLE OVER URBAN SPACE 5. AVOIDING BLACKNESS: THE FLIP SIDE OF BOA APARENCIA 6. MAKING THE MANO: THE UNCOMFORTABLE VISIBILITY OF BLACKNESS IN POLITICALLY CONSCIOUS BRAZILIAN HIP-HOP CONCLUSION: "SEEING" RACE NOTES REFERENCES INDEX
