1st Edition

Race and Afro-Brazilian Agency in Brazil

By Tshombe Miles Copyright 2020
116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

116 Pages
by Routledge

This book provides an insight into the Afro-Brazilian experience of racism in Brazil from the 19 th Century to the present day, exploring people of African Ancestry’s responses to racism in the context of a society where racism was present in practice, though rarely explicit in law. Race and Afro-Brazilian Agency in Brazil examines the variety of strategies, from conservative to radical,... Read more

1. Nineteenth Century Afro-Brazilian Uplift: Conservatives, Reformers, and Outlaw Abolitionists  2. Black Brazilian Protest from an African Diasporic Perspective During the First Republic and Early Vargas Era  3. High Art, Black Art: One Black Theatre’s Response to Racism  4. Strategies against Racism in the age of the Military Dictatorship  5. The Emergence of Black Politics in Political Parties 

Biography

Tshombe Miles is an Assistant Professor of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College, City University of New York, USA.