Slavery Unseen

Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History

AvLamonte Aidoo

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-04-10
Mått:152 x 229 x 16 mm
Vikt:522 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Latin America Otherwise
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Duke University Press
ISBN:9780822371168

Utforska kategorier

Slaveri inom Historia och arkeologi
Våld och övergrepp inom Samhälle och politik
Amerikas historia inom Historia och arkeologi

Mer om författaren

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.

Recensioner i media

"Slavery Unseen is an interesting effort to present a little-known side of Brazilian slavery. The book is a good reading both for specialists and for members of the broader public who want to understand the roots of racism and violence that characterize Brazilian society up to the present day." - Ynaê Lopes dos Santos (Labor) "Slavery Unseen goes beyond typical studies of power and sexual violence by moving away from the quintessential master and enslaved female dialectic. . . . Aidoo has crafted a brilliant and engaging piece of research that will pave the way for future studies of sexuality, power, and violence across the transatlantic world." - Rachael Pasierowska (H-Net Reviews) "Slavery Unseen is revelatory and will change the field of Brazilian history. . . . [Aidoo] has managed to condense an enormous amount of archival information into a compelling text with major implications for history, literature, gender studies, critical race studies, and Luso-Brazilian studies." - Gregory Mitchell (European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies) “Originally conceived, meticulously researched, and well written and argued, [Aidoo’s] book is an intellectually sophisticated interdisciplinary study that examines the race relations and interracial sexual violence that are embedded in Brazilian slavery. . . . Slavery Unseen will certainly leave its vital mark in the fields of Luso-Brazilian studies and Afro-Diaspora studies for years to come.” - Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte (Revista Hispánica Moderna)

Innehållsförteckning

Acknowledgments ixIntroduction. Secrets, Silences, and Sexual Erasures in Brazilian Slavery and History 11. The Racial and Sexual Paradoxes of Brazilian Slavery and National Identity 112. Illegible Violence: The Rape and Sexual Abuse of Male Slaves 293. The White Mistress and the Slave Woman: Seduction, Violence, and Exploitation 674. Social Whiteness: Black Intraracial Violence and the Boundaries of Black Freedom 1115. O Diabo Preto (The Negro Devil): The Myth of the Black Homosexual Predator in the Age of Social Hygiene 149Afterword. Seeing the Unseen: The Life and Afterlives of Ch/Xica da Silva 187Notes 197Bibliography 227Index 249