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Informationen zum Autor Lamonte Aidoo is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University and the coeditor of Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis and Lima Barreto: New Critical Perspectives. Klappentext In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition trial documents to travel accounts and literature, Aidoo demonstrates how interracial and same-sex sexual violence operated as a key mechanism of the production and perpetuation of slavery as well as racial and gender inequality. The myth of racial democracy, Aidoo contends, does not stem from or reflect racial progress; rather, it is an antiblack apparatus that upholds and protects the heteronormative white patriarchy throughout Brazil's past and on into the present. Zusammenfassung Lamonte Aidoo upends dominant narratives of Brazilian national identity by showing how the myth of racial democracy is based on interracial and same-sex sexual violence between slave owners and their slaves that operated as a mechanism of perpetuating slavery and heteronormative white patriarchy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Secrets, Silences, and Sexual Erasures in Brazilian Slavery and History 1 1. The Racial and Sexual Paradoxes of Brazilian Slavery and National Identity 11 2. Illegible Violence: The Rape and Sexual Abuse of Male Slaves 29 3. The White Mistress and the Slave Woman: Seduction, Violence, and Exploitation 67 4. Social Whiteness: Black Intraracial Violence and the Boundaries of Black Freedom 111 5. O Diabo Preto (The Negro Devil): The Myth of the Black Homosexual Predator in the Age of Social Hygiene 149 Afterword. Seeing the Unseen: The Life and Afterlives of Ch/Xica da Silva 187 Notes 197 Bibliography 227 Index 249...
