Pictures and mirrors
Subtitle: race and ethnicity in Brazil and the United States
By: editors, Vinícius Rodrigues Vieira, Jacquelyn Johnson ; collaborators, Andréia Botelho de Rezende ... [et al.].
Publisher: FEAUSP
Published: 2009
Place of publication: São Paulo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9788561522025
Subjects: Social conditions; Race relations; African Americans; Racism; Blacks
Other titles: Race and ethnicity in Brazil and the United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Section 1. History : from slavery to integration; title: The present heritage : the fight for equality in the mid-20th century U.S. / Vinícius Rodrigues Vieira; title: The South Atlantic "freedom" : the American media's view of Brazil's abolition of slavery process / Luciana da Cruz Brito; title: Black Aurora : Afro-Paulistas and Afro-Americans in modernity / Flávio Thales Ribeiro Francisco; title: Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic : an incomplete paradigm / Jacquelyn Johnson; title: Denying the myth of racial democracy and the fallout from studies about race relations after abolition in Brazil / Ticiana Riboldi Verdecanna; title: Whitening a nation to enlighten a nation : shattering the myth of race in Brazil / Nicole Rousseau and La Tanya L. Reese; title: Section 2. Pride and prejudice : contemporary tendencies of identity and discrimination; title: Roads and paths : the intellectual trajectory of Abdias do Nascimento during his exile in the United States (1968-1981) / Túlio Custódio; title: Double discrimination in a racial democracy : struggles of Black feminists in Brazil / Sarah Birdwell; title: Jorge Amado & Gabriela : shoring up the patriarchal paradigm with the mulata identity / Jacquelyn Johnson; title: Racial stigma and domestic work / Jefferson Belarmino de Freitas; title: The murder of Black women in the city of São Paulo in 1998 / Jackeline Romio; title: Negation and misrepresentation : "Black TV" in the United States and Brazil / Sarah Birdwell; title: Black boys and multiple masculinities : the relationship between gender and race in school / Andréia Botelho de Rezende; title: Comparative study of affirmative action keywords in Brazilian Portuguese and American English / EdvanPereira de Brito; title: Section 3. The fight for sunshine : strategies to overcome inequality; title: The constitutional principle of material equality and affirmative action for Blacks in Brazilian universities / Estela Waksberg Guerrini; title: Affirmative action and the American experience : the argument of racial diversity / Nathalie Albieri Laureano; title: Affirmative policies to help students stay in university : connections between Brazil and the United States / Edilza Correia Sotero; title: Black culture as a premise for school culture : thoughts on the multicultural and African-centered education in the United States / Thiago dos Santos Molina; title: A brief history of the public educational policies in the United States, the No Child Left Behind Act, and the issue of race in education / Camila Vital NunesPereira; title: Intersectoral alliances for development with social inclusion : the study of partnerships in Brazil and the United States / Gustavo Ando Furata; title: A brief analysis of the American Black press : how its experience can help in the fight against racism in Brazil / Rafael Corrêa do Carmo.