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Slavery unseen : sex, power, and violence in Brazilian history / Lamonte Aidoo.
LIBRA HT1126 .A728 2018
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Aidoo, Lamonte, 1986- author.
- Series:
- Latin America otherwise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Slavery--Brazil--History.
- Slavery.
- Slaveholders.
- Enslaved persons--Abuse of.
- Race relations.
- History.
- Brazil.
- Brazil--Race relations--History.
- Enslaved persons--Abuse of--Brazil.
- Enslaved persons.
- Slaveholders--Sexual behavior--Brazil.
- Physical Description:
- x, 258 pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2018.
- Contents:
- Introduction : secrets, silence, and sexual erasures in Brazilian slavery and history. The racial and sexual paradoxes of Brazilian slavery and national identity
- Illegible violence : the rape and sexual abuse of male slaves
- The white mistress and the slave woman : seduction, violence, and exploitation
- Social whiteness : Black intraracial violence and the boundaries of Black freedom
- O diabo preto (the Negro devil) : the myth of the Black homosexual predator in the age of social hygiene
- Afterword : seeing the unseen : the life and afterlives of Ch / Xica da Silva.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Aidoo, Lamonte, 1986- Slavery unseen.
- ISBN:
- 9780822371168
- 0822371162
- 9780822371298
- 0822371294
- OCLC:
- 986025591
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