Lamonte Aidoo

Slavery Unseen

Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Lamonte Aidoo upends dominant narratives of Brazilian national identity by showing how the myth of racial democracy is based on interracial and same-sex sexual violence between slave owners and their slaves that operated as a mechanism of perpetuating slavery and heteronormative white patriarchy.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. April 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 531g
• ISBN-13: 9780822371168
• ISBN-10: 0822371162
• Artikelnr.: 48208151

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