Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban Brazil

Dreaming Equality: Color, Race, and Racism in Urban BrazilIn the 1933 publication The Masters and the Slaves, Brazilian scholar and novelist Gilberto Freyre challenged the racist ideas of his day by defending the African contribution to Brazils culture. In so doing, he proposed that Brazil was relatively free of most forms of racial prejudice and could best be understood as a racial democracy. Over time this view has grown into the popular myth that racism in Brazil is very mild or nonexistent. This myth

The second part of the book examines Negritude as a counter-discourse to the discourse on the Negro in Western culture by focusing on the works of Aimé Césaire and Léopold Sédar Senghor

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Drawing on the work of revolutionary black public intellectuals

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