Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil (Paperback)

~ (Author) "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..." (more)
Key Phrases: black globalization, international black culture, funk aficionados, United States, Black Atlantic, Black Bahia (more...)

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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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“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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Product Details Paperback: 256 pages Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1 edition (March 19, 2003) Language: English ISBN-10: 0312293755 ISBN-13: 978-0312293758 Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies) Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews) Amazon.com Sales Rank: #834,135 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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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

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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

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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

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This book cites 67 books:

• The City of Women by Ruth Landes in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
• Paul Simon: The Definitive Biography by Laura Jackson on page 145, and Back Matter
• Brazilian Popular Music and Globalization by Charles A. Perrone in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
• The Many-Headed Hydra: The Hidden History of the Revolutionary Atlantic by Marcus Rediker in Back Matter
• Reproductive Technologies (Current Controversies) by Carol Wekesser in Back Matter

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2 books cite this book:

• Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos by Anani Dzidzienyo on page 115
• Neither Enemies nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos by Anani Dzidzienyo on page 115

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan; 1 edition (March 19, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0312293755
• ISBN-13: 978-0312293758
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 6.4 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #834,135 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Attention grabbing title .., January 17, 2007

By	Brian M. Coffee (Philadelphia, PA United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

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.

4.0 out of 5 stars challenges previous epistemologies, March 17, 2007

By	lbj is dead - See all my reviews

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.