Afro-Brazilians: Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy

by Niyi Afolabi

An interdisciplinary study on the myth of racial democracy in Brazil through the prism of producers of Afro-Brazilian culture.

Brazil, the most racially diverse Latin American country, is also the most contradictory: for centuries it has maintained fantasy as reality through the myth of racial democracy. Enshrined in that mythology is the masking of exclusionism that strategically displaces and marginalizes Afro-Brazilians from political power.
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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580462626
• ISBN13: 9781580462624
• Release Date: April 2009
• Publisher: University of Rochester Press
• Length: 443 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"