Aidoo Lamonte Aidoo

Slavery Unseen (eBook, PDF)

Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History

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Produktbeschreibung

In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition trial documents to travel accounts and literature, Aidoo demonstrates how interracial and same-sex sexual violence operated as a key mechanism of the production and perpetuation of slavery as well as racial and gender inequality. The myth of racial democracy, Aidoo contends, does not stem from or reflect racial progress; rather, it is an antiblack apparatus that upholds and protects the heteronormative white patriarchy throughout Brazil's past and on into the present.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780822371687
• Artikelnr.: 54785268

Autorenporträt

Lamonte Aidoo is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University and the coeditor of Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis and Lima Barreto: New Critical Perspectives.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Secrets, Silences, and Sexual Erasures in Brazilian Slavery
and History  1
1. The Racial and Sexual Paradoxes of Brazilian Slavery and National
Identity  11
2. Illegible Violence: The Rape and Sexual Abuse of Male Slaves  29
3. The White Mistress and the Slave Woman: Seduction, Violence, and
Exploitation  67
4. Social Whiteness: Black Intraracial Violence and the Boundaries of Black
Freedom  111
5. O Diabo Preto (The Negro Devil): The Myth of the Black Homosexual
Predator in the Age of Social Hygiene  149
Afterword. Seeing the Unseen: The Life and Afterlives of Ch/Xica da Silva 
187
Notes  197
Bibliography  227
Index  249