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Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro
Jennifer Roth-Gordon
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Paperback. Based 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. Num Pages: 248 pages, 18 b/w images and 3 maps. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; CFA; JFC; JFSL4; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 152 x 229 x 17. Weight in Grams: 346.
Based 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, Jennifer Roth-Gordon shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro's residents across race and class lines. Race and the Brazilian Body weaves together the experiences of these two groups to explore what the author calls Brazil's comfortable racial contradiction, where embedded structural racism that privileges whiteness exists alongside a deeply held pride in the country's history of racial mixture and lack of overt racial conflict. This linguistic and ... Read more
Based 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, Jennifer Roth-Gordon shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro's residents across race and class lines. Race and the Brazilian Body weaves together the experiences of these two groups to explore what the author calls Brazil's comfortable racial contradiction, where embedded structural racism that privileges whiteness exists alongside a deeply held pride in the country's history of racial mixture and lack of overt racial conflict. This linguistic and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of California Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Berkerley, United States
ISBN
9780520293809
SKU
V9780520293809
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About Jennifer Roth-Gordon
Jennifer Roth-Gordon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona.
Reviews for Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro
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 (11/21/2018) A must-read for scholars studying race and politics in Brazil.
Journal of Anthropological Research (11/21/2018) Roth-Gordon offers important in-sights in fewer ... Read more
American Ethnologist (11/21/2018) A must-read for scholars studying race and politics in Brazil.
Journal of Anthropological Research (11/21/2018) Roth-Gordon offers important in-sights in fewer ... Read more