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

Gladys L. Mitchell-Walthour

ISBN 10: 1316637042 / ISBN 13: 9781316637043

Published by Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1316637042
• ISBN 13: 9781316637043
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 465 grams

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Synopsis

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, São 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 history be taught in schools). It fills an important gap in studies of Afro-Brazilian underrepresentation by using an intersectional framework to examine the perspectives of everyday citizens. The book will be an important reference for scholars and students interested in the issue of racial politics in Latin America and beyond.

About the Author

Gladys Mitchell-Walthour is a Political Scientist in the Department of Africology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She was the 2013–2014 Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. In 2016, she was elected the Vice President of the Brazil Studies Association. She has co-edited both Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil (2016) and Brazil's New Racial Politics (2010).