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Record Nr.

UNINA9910811116703321

Autore

Nascimento Elisa Larkin

Titolo

The sorcery of color : identity, race, and gender in Brazil / / Elisa Larkin Nascimento

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Philadelphia, : Temple University Press, 2007

ISBN

1-281-29906-5

9786611299064

1-59213-352-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (337 p.)

Disciplina

305.800981

Soggetti

Blacks - Brazil - Social conditions

Blacks - Brazil - Politics and government

Racism - Brazil

Sexism - Brazil

Theater and society - Brazil

Sex role - Social aspects - Brazil

Brazil Race relations

Brazil Civilization African influences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Translated from the Portuguese.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [295]-316) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword by Kabengele Munanga; Introduction; Identity, Race, and Gender; Brazil and the Making of Virtual Whiteness; Constructing and Deconstructing the "Crazy Creole"; Another History: Afro-Brazilian Agency (São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, 1914-1960); The Black Experimental Theater: Plots, Texts, and Actors; Concluding Remarks: The Priority of Education; Notes; List of Abbreviations; Glossary of Brazilian Words; Bibliographical Note to the English Edition; Selected Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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 ano