| Description |
1 online resource : maps |
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Afro-Latin America |
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Afro-Latin America.
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| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figure -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: ''An Iron Chain around Your Soul'' -- Slavery as the Presumed Past in the Present -- Informal Adoption, Kinship, and Exploitation -- Theoretical Considerations -- Catching Feelings: The Affective Architecture of Domination -- Methodology and Positionality: ''Bringing Your Whole Self to Research'' -- Interviews and Life History -- Ethnographic Observations -- On Location: The City of (Captive) Women -- On Language -- Organization of Book -- 1 Adopting Modern Slavery: Pathways into and Discourses of Criação -- The Gift: Pathways into Criação -- The Hunger Games: Push Factors into Criação -- The Road to Criação Is Paved with Trauma -- The Maid's Daughter -- The Adoption Lottery and the System of Favors -- ''Eaten Bread Is Soon Forgotten'' -- Conclusion -- 2 ''Quase da Família'' (Almost Family): Affective Ambiguity and Family Theater as Strategies of Domination -- What's in a Name? -- Maid to Mother: Mães Pretas (Black Mammies) and the Boundaries of Motherhood -- Godmothers, ''Other Mothers,'' and Tías -- Exit, Stage Left: Family Theater and Affective Performances as Domination -- Family Portrait: A Picture Is Worth a Thousand Words -- All Work and No Play: Beach Houses, Vacations, and Family Gatherings -- Conclusion -- 3 Prisoners of Love: Affective Captivity and Ruptures in the Family Ideology -- Asymmetrical Affections, Differential Treatment, and Power -- ''Everything in Its Place'': Physical Differentiation and ''Segregation of Spaces'' -- Every Step You Take: Isolation, Surveillance, and Excessive Demands -- Agrados: A Token of Love and Appreciation -- A Love Long Lost: Apego Maldoso (Harmful Connection) and the Permanence of Criação -- Conclusion: Love Conquers All? |
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4 Depths and Debts of Gratitude: The Moral Code of Criação -- You're Welcome: Expectations of Gratitude among Filhas de Criação -- All They Want Is Everything: Duty and Self-Sacrifice -- Racism, Morality, and Little White Lies -- Of Morality and Men -- Conclusion -- 5 Family Bonds and Bondage: Generational Relationships and the Persistence of Criação -- Family-Facilitated Informal Adoption -- A Tale of Two Sisters: Isabel and Priscila -- The Great Escape: The Santos Sisters -- ''A Family Affair'': Sisterhood and Succession -- Great Expectations: Kátia and the Cardoso Family -- ''You Reap What You Sew'': Exchange and Exploitation -- Conclusion -- 6 Home Sick: Health, Disability, and Exploitation of Adult Filhas de Criação -- Health, Disability, and Entrance into Criação -- You Make Me Sick!: Criação and Physical Heath -- Sleepless in Salvador: Sleep Deprivation through the Life Course -- Working My Nerves: Links between Physical and Mental Health -- The Doctor Is In: Mental Health Professionals and Criação -- Virgins, Old Maids, and Women of (Dis)Honor: Sexual Health and Criação -- Institutional Resources and Healthcare for Filhas de Criação -- Conclusion -- 7 Freedom to ''Live Her Own Liberty'': From Existence to Resistance among Filhas de Criação -- I'm Taking My Freedom: Rage and Reckoning -- Kátia: Winning the Lottery and Escaping Criação -- Up and Out! Moving Out and Maintaining Ties -- Will You Stay or Will You Go? Filhas de Criação in Transition -- Never Could Say Goodbye -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: ''The Last of Our Kind?'' -- Domination, Exploitation, and Affective Captivity -- Curtailing Exploitative Forms of Criação -- Second-Class Citizens in Brazil's National Family -- ''A Casa Grande Já Surta, Quando a Senzala Aprenda Ler'' (The Masters go Crazy When the Slaves Learn to Read) -- Race, Gender, and Global Human Trafficking |
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Affective Captivity or Trauma Bonding? -- Onward to Freedom -- Appendix A: Biographical Data on Interviewees -- Appendix B: Research Methods, Emotions, and Ethics -- The Personal Is Political and Professional -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
"In May 2014, a couple posted the above advertisement in the Diário de Pará, a newspaper based in Belém, Pará, Brazil, to find a babá (nanny) for their baby. The publication of an ad of this nature in a mainstream newspaper reflects the pervasive practice of "adopting" young girls into families for the purpose of exploiting them as unpaid domestic workers (Beltrão 2016).1 The listing sparked an uproar among prominent social activist groups in Brazil that marshaled social media platforms to denounce what was viewed as the couple's poorly veiled effort to exploit child labor under the guise of adoption"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 17, 2022) |
| Subject |
Adopted children -- Legal status, laws, etc. -- Brazil
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Black people -- Brazil -- Social conditions
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Household employees -- Brazil -- Social conditions
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Slavery -- Law and legislation -- Brazil
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HISTORY -- Latin America -- General.
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Adopted children -- Legal status, laws, etc.
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Black people -- Social conditions
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Household employees -- Social conditions
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Slavery -- Law and legislation
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Brazil
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2021040684 |
| ISBN |
9781009086639 |
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1009086634 |
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