Blackness Without Ethnicity
Subtitle: Constructing Race in Brazil
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: March 19, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780312293758
Subjects: Black studies; Social & cultural anthropology; Salvador (Brazil); Minority Studies - Race Relations; Ethnic Studies - African American Studies - General; Social aspects; Social Science; Ethnic Issues; Textbooks; Salvador; Multicultural Nonfiction; Latin America; Latin America - South America; Social Science / Sociology / General; Sociology - General; Blacks; Brazil; Globalization; Popular culture; Race identity
First sentence: We start exploration of race relations in Brazil by taking a close look at racial terminology: its internal logic, and how it has evolved throughout history.
Description: "Drawing on 15 years of research in Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Suriname, and the Netherlands, 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. Sansone argues that understanding more complex, ambiguous notions of culture and identity will expand international discourse on race and move it away from American definitions that inadequately describe racial difference. He also explores the effects of globalization on constructions of race"--Publisher description.