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Slavery Unseen: Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History

Slavery Unseen: Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History

Hardcover

Series: Latin America Otherwise

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologySouth American History

ISBN10: 0822371162
ISBN13: 9780822371168
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Apr 10 2018
Pages: 272
Weight: 1.17
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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