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Blackness Without Ethnicity

Constructing Race in Brazil

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  • © 2003

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  1. Livio Sansone
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. An Afro-Latin Paradox?

    • Livio Sansone
    Pages 1-19

  3. Negro Parents, Black Children

    • Livio Sansone
    Pages 21-58

  4. A Contested Icon

    • Livio Sansone
    Pages 59-93

  5. The Local and the Global in Today’s Afro-Bahia

    • Livio Sansone
    Pages 95-110

  6. “Glocal” Funk in Bahia and in Rio

    • Livio Sansone
    Pages 111-140

  7. Being Black in Two Cities

    • Livio Sansone
    Pages 141-163

  8. The Place of Brazil in the Black Atlantic

    • Livio Sansone
    Pages 165-199

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 201-248
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Blackness Without Ethnicity draws on fifteen years of his research in Bahia, Rio Suriname, and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. He compares these Latin American conceptions of race to dominate notions of race that are defined by a black-white polarity and clearly identifiable ethnicities, formulations he sees as highly influenced by the US and to a lesser degree Western Europe. Sansone argues that understanding more complex and ambiguous notions of culture and identity will expand the international discourse on race and move it away from American dominated notions that are not adequate to describe racial difference in other countries (and also in the countries where the notions originated). He also explores the effects of globalization on constructions of race.

Reviews

'Streets ahead of what is currently being published in the field.' - Paul Gilroy, Yale University

'Ground-breaking work' - Ed Telles, UCLA

Sansone's book offers a fresh, unique, insightful, and highly controversial perspective... Taken together, the essays make a stron. case against the analytical ethno-centrism that characterizes much comparative work on race in Brazil. - Mara Loveman, American Journal of Sociology

About the author

LIVIO SANSONE is Vice Director of the Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos at the Universidade Candido Mendes in Brazil. This is the largest research center on race in Brazil. He has published extensively on race and the construction of black identity in English, Dutch, and Portuguese.

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