Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil

by Robin E. Sheriff

Book Overview

In the 1933 publication The Masters and the Slaves, Brazilian scholar and novelist Gilberto Freyre challenged the racist ideas of his day by defending the "African contribution" to Brazil's culture. In so doing, he proposed that Brazil was relatively free of most forms of racial prejudice and could best be understood as a "racial democracy." Over time this view has grown into the popular myth that racism in Brazil is very mild or nonexistent...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813530008
• ISBN13: 9780813530000
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 8.9"