The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil

by Gladys Mitchell-Walthour

Book Overview

This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, S o Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro. Using a theoretical framework that takes into account racial group attachment and the experience of racial discrimination, it seeks to explain Afro-Brazilian political behavior with a focus on affirmative action policy and Law 10.639 (requiring that African and Afro-Brazilian...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1107186102
• ISBN13: 9781107186101
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.16 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.5" x 9.5"