Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity

Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of IdentityFor most of the twentieth century, Brazil was widely regarded as a "racial democracy" a country untainted by the scourge of racism and prejudice. In recent decades, however, this image has been severely critiqued, with a growing number of studies highlighting persistent and deep seated patterns of racial discrimination and inequality. Yet, recent work on race and racism has rarely considered gender as part of its analysis. In Negras in Brazil, Kia

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