Blackness Without Ethnicity: Race and Construction of Black Identity in Brazil
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan | ISBN: 0312293747 | edition 2002 | PDF | 288 pages | 1,13 mb
Drawing on 15 years of research in Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Suriname, and the Netherlands, Livio Sansone explores the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. He compares Latin American conceptions of race to US and European notions of race that are defined by clearly identifiable black-white ethnicities…