The Sorcery of Color
Subtitle: Identity, Race, and Gender in Brazil
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: October 28, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9781592133505
Subjects: Feminism; Racism & racial discrimination; Social conditions; Gender Studies; Brazil; Social Science; Archaeology / Anthropology; Sociology; Latin America - South America; Anthropology - Cultural; Discrimination & Racism; Ethnic Studies - General; Social Science / Gender Studies; Blacks; Politics and government; Racism
Description: "Incorporating leading international scholarship on Pan Africanism and Afrocentric philosophy with the writing of Brazillian scholars, Nascimento presents a compelling feminist argument against the prevailing policy that denies the importance of race in favor of a purposefully vague concept of ethnicity confused with color."--BOOK JACKET.