Research Catalog

Title

Blackness without ethnicity : constructing race in Brazil / Livio Sansone.

Author

Sansone, Livio

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

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Details

Description

viii, 248 p., [6] p. of plates : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Drawing on 15 years of research in Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Suriname, and the Netherlands, Sansone explores the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. He compares Latin American conceptions of race to US and European notions of race that are defined by clearly identifiable black-white ethnicities. Sansone argues that understanding more complex, ambiguous notions of culture and identity will expand international discourse on race and move it away from American definitions that inadequately describe racial difference. He also explores the effects of globalization on constructions of race"--Publisher description.

Subject

• Black people > Race identity > Brazil > Bahia (State)
• Globalization > Social aspects > Brazil > Bahia (State)
• Popular culture > Brazil > Bahia (State)
• Social change > Brazil
• Black people > Race identity > Brazil > Salvador
• Globalization > Social aspects > Brazil > Salvador
• Popular culture > Brazil > Salvador
• Salvador (Brazil) > Race relations
• Bahia (Brazil : State) > Race relations

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [223]-242) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Afro-Latin paradox? : ambiguous ethnic lines, sharp class divisions, and vital black culture -- Negro parents, black children : racial classification in a changing Brazil -- Contested icon : on the use and abuse of Africa in elite and popular Brazilian culture -- Local and the global in today's Afro-Bahia -- "Glocal" funk in Bahia and in Rio : local interpretations of black globalization -- Being black in two cities : comparing lower-class black youth in Salvador and Amsterdam -- Place of Brazil in the black Atlantic.

ISBN

• 0312293747 (cloth)
• 0312293755 (Paperback)

LCCN

^^2002029243

OCLC

• 50235085
• SCSB-10292605

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library