Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro by Roth-Gordon, Jennifer

Oakland: University of California Press, 2007. Paperback. Good +. Paperback. 9" X 6". xi, 232pp. Mild shelf wear to covers, corners, and edges of paper wraps. Pages are clean and unmarked. Binding is sound. ABOUT THIS BOOK: Based on spontaneous conversations of shantytown youth hanging out on the streets of their neighborhoods and interviews from the comfortable living rooms of the middle class, Jennifer Roth-Gordon shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro's residents across race and class lines. Race and the Brazilian Body weaves together the experiences of these two groups to explore what the author calls Brazil's "comfortable racial contradiction," where embedded structural racism that privileges whiteness exists alongside a deeply held pride in the country's history of racial mixture and lack of overt racial conflict. This linguistic and ethnographic account describes how cariocas (people who live in Rio de Janeiro) "read" the body for racial signs. The amount of… Read More

Univ of California Pr, 2016. Hardcover. New. 246 pages. 9.50x6.50x0.50 inches.