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Migration itself contains the notion of the unknown, and this opens up space for human imagination, for fantasy. This book explores some aspects of how foreigners create an imaginary of Brazilian immigrants and how immigrants themselves reinforce these imaginaries through re-fantasized identities. It will also look at the case of Brazilian self-fantasies in Brazil and their verbalized fantasies of foreigners in Brazil. The book frames the notion of fantasy in the context of the Freudian school and that of Slavoj Zizek.

Racism continues to be manifest in various ways in contemporary societies. It is not a distant "bad" memory, something that previous generations practiced and experienced. However, contemporary racism is rather hidden and aversive; thus its nature has changed with time. This book examines the nature of denial and affective logic of contemporary racism. It presents an empirical study conducted in the city of Sao Paulo to point to various discursive forms of denial of racism and a theoretical study through the study and development of the concept of affective logic of racism that Frantz Fanon...