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Slavery Unseen: Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History

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Availability:In StockContributor:LaMonte AidooSeries:Latin America OtherwisePublish date:2018-04-10Pages:272
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822371298ISBN-10:822371294UPC:9780822371298Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Latin America, Black Studies (Global), SlaveryBook Topic:South AmericaSize:8.90 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC0B94TF9R
In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition trial documents to travel accounts and literature, Aidoo demonstrates how interracial and same-sex sexual violence operated as a key mechanism of the production and perpetuation of slavery as well as racial and gender inequality. The myth of racial democracy, Aidoo contends, does not stem from or reflect racial progress; rather, it is an antiblack apparatus that upholds and protects the heteronormative white patriarchy throughout Brazil's past and on into the present.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Duke University PressISBN-13:9780822371298ISBN-10:822371294UPC:9780822371298Book Category:History, Social ScienceBook Subcategory:Latin America, Black Studies (Global), SlaveryBook Topic:South AmericaSize:8.90 x 6.10 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.8003Product ID:SC0B94TF9R
Lamonte Aidoo is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University and the coeditor of Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis and Lima Barreto: New Critical Perspectives.
Publisher: Duke University Press

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