LEADER 04004nam 22005175 450 001 9910154685503321 005 20220316215501.0 010 $a0-520-96715-1 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520967151 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971803 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4770179 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001740195 035 $a(DE-B1597)520408 035 $a(OCoLC)1058474227 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520967151 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971803 100 $a20200424h20162016 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aRace and the Brazilian body $eBlackness, Whiteness, and everyday language in Rio de Janeiro /$fJennifer Roth-Gordon 210 1$aBerkeley, CA :$cUniversity of California Press,$d[2016] 210 4$d©2016 215 $a1 online resource (245 pages) 300 $aPreviously issued in print: 2016. 311 $a0-520-29379-7 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Brazil's "Comfortable Racial Contradiction" --$t2. "Good" Appearances Race, Language, and Citizenship --$t3. Investing in Whiteness Middle-Class Practices of Linguistic Discipline --$t4. Fears of Racial Contact Crime, Violence, and the Struggle over Urban Space --$t5. Avoiding Blackness The Flip Side of Boa Aparência --$t6. Making the Mano The Uncomfortable Visibility of Blackness in Politically Conscious Brazilian Hip-Hop --$tConclusion "Seeing" Race --$tNotes --$tReferences --$tIndex 330 $aBased 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 ethnographic account describes how cariocas (people who live in Rio de Janeiro) "read" the body for racial signs. The amount of whiteness or blackness a body displays is determined not only through observations of phenotypical features-including skin color, hair texture, and facial features-but also through careful attention paid to cultural and linguistic practices, including the use of nonstandard speech commonly described as gíria (slang). Vivid scenes from daily interactions illustrate how implicit social and racial imperatives encourage individuals to invest in and display whiteness (by demonstrating a "good appearance"), avoid blackness (a preference challenged by rappers and hip-hop fans), and "be cordial" (by not noticing racial differences). Roth-Gordon suggests that it is through this unspoken racial etiquette that Rio residents determine who belongs on the world famous beaches of Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon; who deserves to shop in privatized, carefully guarded, air conditioned shopping malls; and who merits the rights of citizenship. 606 $aBlack people$xRace identity$zBrazil$zRio de Janeiro 606 $aHuman skin color$xSocial aspects$zBrazil$zRio de Janeiro 606 $aBlack people$xLanguage$xSocial aspects$zBrazil 607 $aBrazil$xEthnic relations 615 0$aBlack people$xRace identity 615 0$aHuman skin color$xSocial aspects 615 0$aBlack people$xLanguage$xSocial aspects 676 $a305.800981 700 $aRoth-Gordon$b Jennifer$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01075946 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154685503321 996 $aRace and the Brazilian Body$92585854 997 $aUNINA