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Imagining the Mulatta : blackness in U.S. and Brazilian media / Jasmine Mitchell.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Mitchell, Jasmine, 1981- author.
Series:
Illinois scholarship online.
Illinois scholarship online
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Mass media and race relations--United States.
Mass media and race relations.
Mass media and race relations--Brazil.
Women in mass media.
Celebrities in mass media.
Multiracial women--United States.
Multiracial women.
Multiracial women--Brazil.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (1 online resource)
Place of Publication:
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2021.
Summary:
'Imagining the Mulatta' demonstrates how mixed-race women of African and European descent are harnessed in popular media as a tool to uphold white supremacy and discipline people of African descent to uphold state policies of antiblackness. Uncovering the racialized and gendered paradigms of U.S. and Brazilian media, the text uses case studies of texts from a broad range of popular culture media-film, telenovelas, television shows, music videos, magazines, newspapers, and Olympic ceremonies-to elucidate how the U.S. mulatta and Brazilian mulata figures operates within and across the United States and Brazil as a response to racial anxieties and notions of white superiority.
Contents:
Foundations of the Mulata and Mulatta in the United States and Brazil
Framing Blackness and Mixedness: The Politics of Racial Identity in the Celebrity Texts of Jennifer Beals, Halle Berry, and Camila Pitanga
The Morena and the Mulata in Brazilian Telenovelas: Containing Blackness in a Racial Democracy
Reinventing the Mulatta in the United States for the 2000s: Celebrating Diversity amid the Haunting of Blackness
Remixing Mixedness: U.S. Media Imaginings of Brazil and Brazil's Bid for Rio.
Notes:
Previously issued in print: 2020.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on November 27, 2020).
ISBN:
9780252052163
0252052161
OCLC:
1137736115

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