Negras in Brazil : : Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity /

Negras in Brazil : : Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity / / Kia Lilly Caldwell.

For most of the twentieth century, Brazil was widely regarded as a "racial democracy"-a country untainted by the scourge of racism and prejudice. In recent decades, however, this image has been severely critiqued, with a growing number of studies highlighting persistent and deep-seated pat...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Caldwell, Kia Lilly,
Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2007]
©2006
Year of Publication:2007
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. Re-envisioning the Brazilian Nation
  • 1. "A Foot in the Kitchen": Brazilian Discourses on Race, Hybridity, and National Identity
  • 2. Women in and out of Place: Engendering Brazil's Racial Democracy
  • PART TWO. The Body and Subjectivity
  • 3. "Look at Her Hair": The Body Politics of Black Womanhood
  • 4. Becoming a Mulher Negra
  • PART THREE. Activism and Resistance
  • 5. "What Citizenship Is This?": Narratives of Marginality and Struggle
  • 6. The Black Women's Movement: Politicizing and Reconstructing Collective Identities
  • Epilogue: Re-envisioning Racial Essentialism and Identity Politics
  • Notes
  • References
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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