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In Racism in a Racial Democracy , France Winddance Twine asks why Brazilians, particularly Afro-Brazilians, continue to have faith in Brazil's "racial democracy" in the face of pervasive racism in all spheres of Brazilian life. Through a detailed ethnography, Twine provides a cultural analysis of the everyday discursive and material practices that sustain and naturalize white supremacy.

This is the first ethnographic study of racism in southeastern Brazil to place the practices of upwardly mobile Afro-Brazilians at the center of analysis. Based on extensive field research and more than fifty life histories with Afro- and Euro-Brazilians, this book analyzes how Brazilians conceptualize and respond to racial disparities. Twine illuminates the obstacles Brazilian activists face when attempting to generate grassroots support for an antiracist movement among the majority of working class Brazilians. Anyone interested in racism and antiracism in Latin America will find this book compelling.

"This wonderfully engaging study explodes the myth of racial democracy in a pathbreaking analysis of Brazilian style." -- Karen Brodkin, author of How Jews Became White Folks

"Twine offers one of the most sophisticated analyses to date of the intransigence of Brazilian racism. Her nuanced account of the complex interplay of gender, race, and class is particularly exciting. This book will have a powerful impact not only on the field of Brazilian racial studies, but on the whole burgeoning literature on the African Diaspora." -- Howard Winant, author of Racial Conditions: Politics, Theory, Comparisons

"A revealing and sharply observed dissection of how racism works 'on the ground' in Brazil." -- George Reid Andrews, author of Blacks and Whites in Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1888-1988

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• Acknowledgments(p. xi)
• Chapter 1 Introduction(p. 1)
• Chapter 2 Vasalia: the Research Site(p. 15)
• Conclusion(p. 30)
• Chapter 3 Mapping the Ideological Terrain of Racism: The Social, Sexual, Socioeconomic, and Semiotic Contours(p. 31)
• Conclusion(p. 63)
• Chapter 4 Discourses in Defense of the Racial Democracy(p. 65)
• Chapter 5 Embranquecimento: Aesthetic Ideals and Resistance to Mestiçagem(p. 87)
• Conclusion(p. 107)
• Chapter 6 Memory: White Inflation and Willful Forgetting(p. 111)
• Conclusion(p. 133)
• Chapter 7 Strategic Responses to Racism Preserving White Supremacy(p. 135)
• Conclusion(p. 152)
• Appendix A Interview Schedule(p. 155)
• Appendix B Biographical Data on Interviewees(p. 157)
• Notes(p. 159)
• Glossary(p. 165)
• Bibliography(p. 167)
• Index(p. 173)
• About the Author(p. 176)

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Twine's clearly written ethnographic study addresses the paradox that Brazil has pervasive racial inequality but lacks antiracist grassroots social movements. By documenting the discursive and material practices of ordinary Brazilians, the author explores the reasons that nonelites, particularly African Americans, embrace the mainstream model of racial democracy that reproduces white supremacist ideologies and structures. Her research shows a public belief in the "cultural inferiority" of African descent. Life history interviews supplement participant observation and household surveys performed over a cumulative ten-month residency in a former Brazilian coffee plantation town. Twine's major arguments for the dormancy of the black movement are that nonelites define and describe racism in terms of individual attitudes and practices rather than recognizing its institutional basis; adopt an "orthodoxic" discourse of class rather than seeing racial inequality as central; and embrace the ideology of "whitening." Twine's counterstrategy focuses on raising the antiracist consciousness and discourses of children and adolescents to confront the realities of racism in Brazil. For those interested in the sociocultural intersection of class and race relations. All levels. P. E. Herideen Northeastern University