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Zusatztext "[Roth-Gordon] presents [her findings] in an accessible narrative that would provide compelling reading for an undergraduate course on race or Brazil and might help us all better understand why famously 'cordial' Brazilians recently elected an uncordially racist president." Informationen zum Autor Jennifer Roth-Gordon is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Arizona. Klappentext “ Race and the Brazilian Body provides a useful and original contribution to the field of the study of race in urban Brazil. By analyzing the use of language and euphemism, Jennifer Roth-Gordon provides a crucial and heretofore missing component for understanding Brazilian cultural practices associated with race, color, and class. This is an excellent and important study that will be a much-needed addition to the current discussion.”—Jan Hoffman French, author of Legalizing Identities: Becoming Black or Indian in Brazil’s Northeast “Based on years of field work, this superb book is a complex and nuanced account of how race is produced, experienced, and denied in Rio de Janeiro, interweaving multiple sites of semiotic analysis from the sound of voices to the shape of the city on both small and large scales. The work sets a new standard for the ethnographic study of race and racialization.”—Jane H. Hill, author of The Everyday Language of White Racism "Poignant and pointed, this fascinating study delves into the everyday practices of racial identification in contemporary Brazil. Roth-Gordon shows how negotiations over strategic acts of self-positioning—amid discourses of “racial cordiality,” class, and security—exacerbate the vulnerabilities of blackness and whiteness. Her sophisticated analysis provides important, fresh insights on Brazil’s long-studied racial contradictions, with clear implications for how ordinary acts can reinforce or challenge broad structures of inequality anywhere."—Kristina Wirtz, author of Performing Afro-Cuba: Image, Voice, Spectacle in the Making of Race and History Zusammenfassung 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, the author shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro's residents across race and class lines. Inhaltsverzeichnis ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 1. BRAZIL’S “COMFORTABLE RACIAL CONTRADICTION” 2. “GOOD” APPEARANCES: RACE! LANGUAGE! AND CITIZENSHIP 3. INVESTING IN WHITENESS: MIDDLE-CLASS PRACTICES OF LINGUISTIC DISCIPLINE 4. FEARS OF RACIAL CONTACT: CRIME! VIOLENCE! AND THE STRUGGLE OVER URBAN SPACE 5. AVOIDING BLACKNESS: THE FLIP SIDE OF BOA APARENCIA 6. MAKING THE MANO: THE UNCOMFORTABLE VISIBILITY OF BLACKNESS IN POLITICALLY CONSCIOUS BRAZILIAN HIP-HOP CONCLUSION: “SEEING” RACE NOTES REFERENCES INDEX ...
