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Between brown and Black : anti-racist activism in Brazil / Antonio José Bacelar da Silva.

"With new momentum, the Brazilian black movement is working to bring attention to and change the situation of structural racism in Brazil. Black consciousness advocates are challenging Afro-Brazilians to define themselves and politically organize around being black, and more Afro-Brazilians are...

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Online Access: Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author: Silva, Antonio José Bacelar da (Author)
Other title:Anti-racist activism in Brazil
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2022]
Subjects:
Black people > Race identity > Brazil.
Black people > Political activity > Brazil.
Anti-racism > Brazil.
Brazil > Social conditions > 21st century.
Anti-racism
Black people > Political activity
Black people > Race identity
Social conditions
Brazil
2000-2099
Table of Contents:
  • Black into brown, brown into Black : Afro-Brazilians grapple with racial categorization
  • The language of Afro-Brazilian anti-racist socialization
  • Performing ancestors, claiming Blackness
  • Becoming an anti-racist or "as Black as we can be"
  • Who can be Black for affirmative action programs in Brazil?
  • The complex calculus of race and electoral politics in Salvador
  • Conclusion: Afro-Brazilians' Black and brown anti-racism.

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