The Sorcery of Color: Identity, Race, and Gender in BrazilTemple University Press, 2007 - 324 sider Originally published in 2003 in Portuguese, The Sorcery of Color argues that there are longstanding and deeply-rooted relationships between racial and gender inequalities in Brazil. In this pioneering book, Elisa Larkin Nascimento examines the social and cultural movements that have attempted, since the early twentieth century, to challenge and eradicate these conjoined inequalities. The book's title describes the social sleight-of-hand that disguises the realities of Brazilian racial inequity. According to Nascimento, anyone who speaks of racism—or merely refers to another person as black—traditionally is seen as racist. The only acceptably non-racist attitude is silence. At the same time, Afro-Brazilian culture and history have been so overshadowed by the idea of a general "Brazilian identity" that to call attention to them is also to risk being labeled racist. Incorporating leading international scholarship on Pan Africanism and Afrocentric philosophy with the writing of Brazilian scholars, Nascimento presents a compelling feminist argument against the prevailing policy that denies the importance of race in favor of a purposefully vague concept of ethnicity confused with color. |
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... individuals articulate the set of references that guide their ways of acting and mediating their relationships with others, the world, and themselves. Identity is not only shaped by an individual's life experience but also by the ...
... individual and collective identity. The stability of representations grounded in tradition mediated language and culture, placing identity in the realm of the conscious. Two phenomena of the twentieth century drastically changed this ...
... individual life and in society are mutually dependent. The idea of identifications in the plural emphasizes the importance of social movements and recognizes their protagonists as actors on the stage of individual and collective human ...
... the restructuring of capitalism. It is a society of global fluxes of wealth, power, and images in which “the search for identity, collective and individual, attributed or constructed, becomes the basic source 14. |. chapter 1.
... individual agent is no longer that of the charismatic leader or brilliant strategist at the helm of organizations such as political parties, labor unions, and right-wing or left-wing social interest organizations. Rather, the individual ...
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Constructing and Deconstructing the Crazy Creole | 75 |
AfroBrazilian Agency São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro 19141960 | 120 |
Plots Texts and Actors | 164 |
The Priority of Education | 227 |
Notes | 241 |
List of Abbreviations | 283 |
Glossary of Brazilian Words | 287 |
Bibliographical Note to the English Edition | 291 |
Selected Bibliography | 295 |
Index | 317 |
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