Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro auhtorhouse ISBN-13 : 9781534400597

ISBN-13 : 9781534400597

In Illegible Will Hershini Bhana Young engages with the archive of South African and black diasporic performance to examine the absence of black women's will from that archive

author of The Secret Lives of Church Ladies

A car accident takes their lives and leaves seven heartbroken kids on their own

the key to the rise in violence was embedded in attitudes not only about black men

Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro auhtorhouse ISBN-13 : 9781534400597Based 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 Janeiros 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 Brazils comfortable racial