Politics of Blackness - Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil

This book examines Afro-Brazilian individual and group identity and political behavior, and develops a theory of racial spatiality of Afro-Brazilian underrepresentation.

List of contents

Introduction; 1. Afro-Brazilian political underrepresentation; 2. Blackness and racial identification in contemporary Brazil; 3. Negro group attachment in Brazil; 4. Negro linked fate and racial policies; 5. Afro-descendant perceptions of discrimination and support for affirmative action.

About the author

Gladys Mitchell-Walthour is a Political Scientist in the Department of Africology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She was the 2013–2014 Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. In 2016, she was elected the Vice President of the Brazil Studies Association. She has co-edited both Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil (2016) and Brazil's New Racial Politics (2010).

Summary

This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact the experience race has on Afro-Brazilian political behavior and the race-based vision of politics in the cities of Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. It emphasizes the importance of focusing on how discrimination affects individual and group political behavior.

Product details

• Authors: Gladys L. Mitchell, Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, Gladys (University of Wisconsin Mitchell-Walthour, Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour, Gladys L. (University of Wiscon Mitchell-Walthour, Mitchell-Walthour Gladys L.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2017
• EAN: 9781316637043
• ISBN: 978-1-316-63704-3
• No. of pages: 282
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Stratific; Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity; Cambridge Studies in Stratification Economics: Economics and Social Identity
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Sociology, Brazil, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / General, 21st Century, Politics & government, Microeconomics, Hispanic & Latino Studies, Constitution: government and the state