TY - GEN T1 - Dreaming equality : color, race, and racism in urban Brazil A1 - Sheriff, Robin E., 1959- LA - English PP - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press YR - 2001 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_ocm52870588 AB - "Brazil has the largest African-descended population in the world outside Africa. Despite an economy founded on slave labor, Brazil has long been renowned as a "racial democracy." Many Brazilians and observers of Brazil continue to maintain that racism there is very mild or nonexistent. The myth of racial democracy contrasts starkly with the realities of a pernicious racial inequality that permeates Brazilian culture and social structure. To study the significance of this contrast on African Brazilians views of themselves and their nation, Robin E. Sheriff lived in a primarily black shantytown in Rio de Janeiro, where she explored the inhabitantss views of race and racism firsthand. How, she asks, do poor African Brazilians experience and interpret racism in a country where its very existence tends to be publicly denied? How is racism talked about privately in the family and publicly in the communityor is it talked about at all? Sheriffs analysis is particularly important because most Brazilians live in urban settings, and her examination of their views of race and racism sheds light on common but underarticulated racial attitudes. This book is the first to demonstrate that urban African Brazilians recognize the deceptions of the myth of racial democracywhile embracing it as a dream of how their nation should be."--Book cover OP - 264 CN - F2646.9.N4 S44 2001eb SN - 0813556023 SN - 9780813556024 SN - 0813529999 KW - Black people : Brazil : Rio de Janeiro : Social conditions. KW - Racism : Brazil : Rio de Janeiro. KW - Black people : Brazil : Rio de Janeiro : Attitudes. KW - Black people : Civil rights : Brazil : Rio de Janeiro. KW - White people : Brazil : Rio de Janeiro : Attitudes. KW - Middle class : Brazil : Rio de Janeiro : Attitudes. KW - Rio de Janeiro (Brazil) : Race relations. KW - Racisme : Brésil : Rio de Janeiro. KW - Personnes blanches : Brésil : Rio de Janeiro : Attitudes. KW - Personnes noires : Brésil : Rio de Janeiro : Conditions sociales. KW - Personnes noires : Droits : Brésil : Rio de Janeiro. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Ethnic Studies : African American Studies. KW - Black people : Attitudes KW - Black people : Civil rights KW - Black people : Social conditions KW - Middle class : Attitudes KW - Race relations KW - Racism KW - White people : Attitudes KW - Brazil : Rio de Janeiro KW - Ethnische Beziehungen KW - Rassismus KW - Slum KW - Schwarze KW - Weiße KW - Rio de Janeiro KW - Stadt KW - Brasilien KW - Noirs : Brésil : Rio de Janeiro (Brésil) : Conditions sociales. KW - Noirs : Brésil : Attitudes. KW - Blancs : Brésil : Attitudes. KW - Racisme : Brésil. KW - interraciale relaties KW - race relations KW - sociale interactie KW - social interaction KW - etnische groepen KW - ethnic groups KW - rassendiscriminatie KW - racial discrimination KW - zwarten KW - blacks KW - attitudes KW - burgerrechten KW - civil rights KW - sociale klassen KW - social classes KW - Brazil KW - stedelijke bevolking KW - urban population KW - sociale situatie KW - social situation KW - Ethnic Relations KW - Etnische betrekkingen ER -