Race and Afro-Brazilian Agency in Brazil

ISBN-13: 9780367785192 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 108 str.

Tshombe Miles

Opis

This book provides an insight into the Afro-Brazilian experience of racism in Brazil from the 19^th Century to the present day, exploring people of African Ancestry’s responses to racism in the context of a society where racism was present in practice, though rarely explicit in law.

Spis treści

1. Nineteenth Century Afro-Brazilian Uplift: Conservatives, Reformers, and Outlaw Abolitionists  2. Black Brazilian Protest from an African Diasporic Perspective During the First Republic and Early Vargas Era  3. High Art, Black Art: One Black Theatre’s Response to Racism  4. Strategies against Racism in the age of the Military Dictatorship  5. The Emergence of Black Politics in Political Parties 

O autorze

Tshombe Miles is an Assistant Professor of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York, USA.