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Slavery unseen : sex, power, and violence in Brazilian history / Lamonte Aidoo.

LIBRA HT1126 .A728 2018
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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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