Title Negras in Brazil : re-envisioning black women, citizenship, and the politics of identity / Kia Lilly Caldwell

Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2007

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Description 1 online resource (xxii, 226 pages) : illustrations Contents Part 1 Re-envisioning the Brazilian Nation -- 1 "A Foot in the Kitchen": Brazilian Discourses on Race, Hybridity, and National Identity 27 -- 2 Women in and out of Place: Engendering Brazil's Racial Democracy 50 -- Part 2 The Body and Subjectivity -- 3 "Look at Her Hair": The Body Politics of Black Womanhood 81 -- 4 Becoming a Mulher Negra 107 -- Part 3 Activism and Resistance -- 5 "What Citizenship Is This?": Narratives of Marginality and Struggle 133 -- 6 The Black Women's Movement: Politicizing and Reconstructing Collective Identities 150 -- Epilogue: Re-envisioning Racial Essentialism and Identity Politics 177 Summary In Negras in Brazil, Kia Lilly Caldwell examines the life experiences of Afro-Brazilian women whose stories have until now been largely untold. This pathbreaking study analyzes the links between race and gender and broader processes of social, economic, and political exclusion. Drawing on ethnographic research with social movement organizations and thirty-five life history interviews, Caldwell explores the everyday struggles Afro-Brazilian women face in their efforts to achieve equal rights and full citizenship Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-217) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Women, Black -- Political activity -- Brazil Women, Black -- Brazil -- Social conditions Feminism -- Brazil Black people -- Race identity -- Brazil POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Civil Rights. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Freedom & Security -- Human Rights. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- Hispanic American Studies. Black people -- Race identity Feminism Race relations Women, Black -- Political activity Women, Black -- Social conditions Frau SUBJECT Brazil -- Race relations Subject Brazil Brasilien Form Electronic book ISBN 9780813541327 0813541328

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