Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil

by Livio Sansone

Book Overview

Blackness Without Ethnicity draws on fifteen years of his research in Bahia, Rio Suriname, and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. He compares these Latin American conceptions of race to dominate notions of race that are defined by a black-white polarity and clearly identifiable ethnicities, formulations he sees as highly influenced...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0312293755
• ISBN13: 9780312293758
• Release Date: August 2003
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.5"