Drawing on 15 years of research in Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Suriname, and the Netherlands, Livio Sansone explores the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. He compares Latin American conceptions of race to US and European notions of race that are defined by clearly identifiable black-white ethnicities. Sansone argues that understanding more complex, ambiguous notions of culture and identity will expand international discourse on race and move it away from American definitions unable to describe racial difference. He also explores the effects of globalization on constructions of race.
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“Streets ahead of what is currently being published in the field.” ——Paul Gilroy, Yale University
“Ground-breaking work” ——Ed Telles, UCLA
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Livio Sansone is Vice Director of Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos at Universidade Candido Mendes in Brazil. He has published extensively on race and the construction of black identity in English, Dutch, and Portuguese.
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7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
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Attention grabbing title ..,
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This review is from: Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil (Paperback)
but I didn't get much out of this book. It seems to stray too often from the subject title. Also the book seems to be lacking in anything that might be considered a breakthrough in intellectual thinking and debate on the matter. It also seems a bit jumbled. For general reading on the subject I am not sure if I would recommend it, however if you are a researcher of academic type looking for information that you can quote you may just gleen something useful out of it.
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challenges previous epistemologies,
This review is from: Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil (Paperback)
Sansone's book should resonate with students and academics interested in identity studies in general, but especially identity studies in Brazil and in a transnational/diasporan frame. However, the underlying significance of the work is in its historiographical contributions, so readers might not catch any "breakthrough in intellectual thinking and debate on the matter" without having read 15-20 other works on race in Brazil. Much of the studies on Afro-Brazilian identity have been done by North American scholars who brought with them their own ideas of what "blackness" should mean. Sansone is among the first to suggest that such methodologies and assumptions are wrong and have skewed those earlier studies, and then he goes on demonstrating how/why throughout the book.
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Blackness without ethnicity,
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We start exploration of race relations in Brazil by taking a close look at racial terminology: its internal logic, and how it has evolved throughout history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black globalization, international black culture, funk aficionados, organized dance groups, contested icon, polarized race relations, racial hell, term moreno, new black identity, funk dances, black cultural production, without ethnicity, carnival associations, symbol bank, racial terminology, color terminology, black ethnicity, racial paradise, funk music, color continuum, term negro, global youth culture, youth styles, samba music, ethnic symbols Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Black Atlantic, Black Bahia, New World, Caminho de Areia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Latin America, New York, Third World, African American, Afro Carnival, First World, Jackson Five, Liberation Theology, Los Angeles, Pierre Verger, Valle Silva, West Africa, Melville Herskovits, North America, Roger Bastide, Sport Club Periperi, World War, Cidade Baixa New!
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We start exploration of race relations in Brazil by taking a close look at racial terminology: its internal logic, and how it has evolved throughout history. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
black globalization, international black culture, funk aficionados, organized dance groups, contested icon, polarized race relations, racial hell, term moreno, new black identity, funk dances, black cultural production, without ethnicity, carnival associations, symbol bank, racial terminology, color terminology, black ethnicity, racial paradise, funk music, color continuum, term negro, global youth culture, youth styles, samba music, ethnic symbols Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Black Atlantic, Black Bahia, New World, Caminho de Areia, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Latin America, New York, Third World, African American, Afro Carnival, First World, Jackson Five, Liberation Theology, Los Angeles, Pierre Verger, Valle Silva, West Africa, Melville Herskovits, North America, Roger Bastide, Sport Club Periperi, World War, Cidade Baixa New!
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