Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil
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| Rating | : | 4.28 (954 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0813530008 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 278 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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To better appreciate how Brazilians talk about (or avoid talking about) color, race, and racism in everyday life, Sheriff moved to Rio de Janeiro, where she lived in a black shantytown for a year and a half, interviewing the residents, their white, middle-class neighbors, and urban black militants. Skillfully dismembering the concept of democracia racial and all its paradoxes, Sheriff offers an innovative method for analyzing racism in any country or locale, not just Brazil. Deborah Bigelow, Leonia P.L., NJ Copyright 2001 Reed
Mona C said Would recommend. Read for Anthropology of Inequality. Very interesting points made about Brazil. Learned a lot. Still have the book. Worth your time.. Five Stars Isis Great quality and it shipped to me right on time!
To study the grip of this myth on African Brazilians’ views of themselves and their nation, Robin E. This book is the first to demonstrate that urban African Brazilians do not subscribe to the racial democracy myth and recognize racism as a central factor shaping their lives.. Sheriff spent twenty months in a primarily black shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, studying the inhabitants’s views of race and racism. In the 1933 publication The Masters and the Slaves, Brazilian scholar and novelist Gilberto Freyre challenged the racist ideas of his day by defending the “African contribution” to Brazil’s culture. How, she asks, do poor African Brazilians experience and interpret racism in a country where its very existence tends to be publicly denied? How is racism talked about privately in the family and publicly in the community—or is it talked about at all?Sheriff’s analysis is particularly important because most Br