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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Nascimento, Elisa Larkin.

Standardized Title:

Sortilégio da cor. English

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black people--Brazil--Social conditions.

Black people.

Black people--Brazil--Politics and government.

Racism--Brazil.

Racism.

Sexism--Brazil.

Sexism.

Theater and society--Brazil.

Theater and society.

Sex role--Social aspects--Brazil.

Sex role.

Brazil--Race relations.

Brazil.

Brazil--Civilization--African influences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (337 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Translated from the Portuguese.

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

ISBN:

9786611299064

9781281299062

1281299065

9781592133529

1592133525

OCLC:

476153659