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Second-class daughters : Black Brazilian women and informal adoption as modern slavery
- Title
- Second-class daughters : Black Brazilian women and informal adoption as modern slavery / Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, University of South Florida.
- Author
- Hordge-Freeman, Elizabeth, 1979-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- ©2022
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- Description
- xiii, 273 pages : maps; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "In May 2014, a couple posted the above advertisement in the Diário de Pará, a newspaper based in Belém, Pará, Brazil, to find a babá (nanny) for their baby. The publication of an ad of this nature in a mainstream newspaper reflects the pervasive practice of "adopting" young girls into families for the purpose of exploiting them as unpaid domestic workers (Beltrão 2016).1 The listing sparked an uproar among prominent social activist groups in Brazil that marshaled social media platforms to denounce what was viewed as the couple's poorly veiled effort to exploit child labor under the guise of adoption"--
- Series Statement
- Afro-Latin America
- Alternative Title
- Second class daughters : Black Brazilian women and informal adoption as modern slavery
- Subject
- Adopted children > Legal status, laws, etc. > Brazil
- Black people > Brazil > Social conditions
- Household employees > Brazil > Social conditions
- Slavery > Law and legislation > Brazil
- Adopted children > Legal status, laws, etc
- Black people > Social conditions
- Household employees > Social conditions
- Slavery > Law and legislation
- Legal status
- Adopted children
- Black people
- Household employees
- Slavery
- Brazil
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 22-1491
- ISBN
- 9781316514719
- 1316514714
- 9781009087414
- 100908741X
- LCCN
- 2021040683
- OCLC
- 1273469465
- Author
- Hordge-Freeman, Elizabeth, 1979- author.
- Title
- Second-class daughters : Black Brazilian women and informal adoption as modern slavery / Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, University of South Florida.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.
- Copyright Date
- ©2022
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- Afro-Latin America
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 22-1491