Description
Book SynopsisAn examination of how racial and gender hierarchies are intertwined in Brazil
Trade Review"This book presents the reader with new and original scholarship both in comparative racial studies and comparative feminist thought. Nascimento also presents an incalculable historical analysis of the growth and dynamic nature of the Afro-Brazilian protest movement during the twentieth-century."
—J. Michael Turner, Hunter College
"This is an extremely thoughtful and challenging study of the overlapping and often confusing histories of identity, race, and gender in Brazil....This book has considerable appeal as history and theory...Highly Recommended."
—Choice
"The book is explicitly devoted to making a huge theoretical and historical review of the position of black people in Brazil, as well as of their fights for justice and recognition, and in this it has been particularly successful. Placing herself on these crossroads, blessed by Esu, the author produces an intellectual position complimented by her political engagement, and makes a political statement by means of her intellectual criticism. This intellectual enterprise is of great importance at this moment when Brazil is undergoing unprecedented progressive polarization regarding the implementation of affirmative action policies. "
—The European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
List of Tables
List of Abbreviations
Introduction to the English Edition
Preface – Kabengele Munanga
Introduction
1. Identity, Race, and Gender
2. Brazil and the Making of "Virtual Whiteness"
3. Constructing and Desconstructing the "Crazy Creole"
4. Another History: Afro-Brazilian Agency (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1914-1960)
5. The Black Experimental Theater: Plots, Texts, and Actors
Glossary of Brazilian Words
Bibliographical References
