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Blackness Without Ethnicity
Livio Sansone
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Description for Blackness Without Ethnicity
Paperback. "Blackness without Ethnicity" draws on 15 years of Livio Sansone's research in Bahia, Rio Suriname and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. Num Pages: 248 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1KLSB; JFSL3; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 16. Weight in Grams: 299.
Blackness Without Ethnicity draws on fifteen years of his research in Bahia, Rio Suriname, and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. He compares these Latin American conceptions of race to dominate notions of race that are defined by a black-white polarity and clearly identifiable ethnicities, formulations he sees as highly influenced by the US and to a lesser degree Western Europe. Sansone argues that understanding more complex and ambiguous notions of culture and identity will expand the international discourse on race ... Read more
Blackness Without Ethnicity draws on fifteen years of his research in Bahia, Rio Suriname, and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. He compares these Latin American conceptions of race to dominate notions of race that are defined by a black-white polarity and clearly identifiable ethnicities, formulations he sees as highly influenced by the US and to a lesser degree Western Europe. Sansone argues that understanding more complex and ambiguous notions of culture and identity will expand the international discourse on race ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
St Martin's Press United States
Number of pages
248
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
Gordonsville, United States
ISBN
9780312293758
SKU
V9780312293758
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About Livio Sansone
LIVIO SANSONE is Vice Director of the Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos at the Universidade Candido Mendes in Brazil. This is the largest research center on race in Brazil. He has published extensively on race and the construction of black identity in English, Dutch, and Portuguese.
Reviews for Blackness Without Ethnicity
'Streets ahead of what is currently being published in the field.' - Paul Gilroy, Yale University 'Ground-breaking work' - Ed Telles, UCLA Sansone's book offers a fresh, unique, insightful, and highly controversial perspective... Taken together, the essays make a stron. case against the analytical ethno-centrism that characterizes much comparative work on race in Brazil. - ... Read more