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

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 blackness con...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Roth-Gordon, Jennifer, 1972- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2017]
Subjects:
Blacks > Race identity > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Human skin color > Social aspects > Brazil > Rio de Janeiro.
Blacks > Language > Social aspects > Brazil.
Brazil > Ethnic relations.

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