Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Yoruba Orthography
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Negotiating Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy
- 1 Two Faces of Racial Democracy
- 2 Quilombhoje as a Cultural Collective
- 3 Beyond the Curtains: Unveiling Afro-Brazilian Women Writers
- 4 (Un)Broken Linkages
- 5 The Tropicalist Legacy of Gilberto Gil
- 6 Afro-Brazilian Carnival
- 7 Film and Fragmentation
- 8 Ancestrality and the Dynamics of Afro-Modernity
- 9 The Forerunners of Afro-Modernity
- 10 (Un)Transgressed Tradition
- 11 Ancestrality, Memory, and Citizenship
- 12 Quilombo without Frontiers
- 13 Ancestral Motherhood of Leci Brandão
- Conclusion: The Future of Afro-Brazilian Cultural Production
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
1 - Two Faces of Racial Democracy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 September 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Notes on Yoruba Orthography
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Negotiating Cultural Production in a Racial Democracy
- 1 Two Faces of Racial Democracy
- 2 Quilombhoje as a Cultural Collective
- 3 Beyond the Curtains: Unveiling Afro-Brazilian Women Writers
- 4 (Un)Broken Linkages
- 5 The Tropicalist Legacy of Gilberto Gil
- 6 Afro-Brazilian Carnival
- 7 Film and Fragmentation
- 8 Ancestrality and the Dynamics of Afro-Modernity
- 9 The Forerunners of Afro-Modernity
- 10 (Un)Transgressed Tradition
- 11 Ancestrality, Memory, and Citizenship
- 12 Quilombo without Frontiers
- 13 Ancestral Motherhood of Leci Brandão
- Conclusion: The Future of Afro-Brazilian Cultural Production
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Rochester Studies in African History and the Diaspora
Summary
To make believe color is not noticed in social situations is to end up permitting discrimination by default. To recognize that discrimination is an ever-present tendency in any society in which there is a physically identifiable group is to take the first step in guarding against prejudice.
—Carl Degler, Neither Black nor WhiteAnalyzing today's [1968] reality we could almost say that the Golden Law was signed yesterday. The situation of the free Negro has changed a little in the 80 years since abolition: low social, educational, economic, political, and sanitary status, and the list of frustrations transformed into a strong potentiality of just resentments by the race.
—Abdias do Nascimento, O negro revoltadoMany are the masks of inequality in Brazil and limited are the strategies of resistance: Carnival, samba, capoeira, and the representation of the mulatta in Brazilian literature and culture are a few of the cultural manifestations competing for a place in the exportation of myth and the exploitation of the Afro-Brazilian experience. Even the most casual observer of Brazil is easily co-opted into believing that, somehow, it is possible to live in a world free of prejudices and inequalities given a racial mixture that facilitates harmony and racial blindness.
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- Afro-BraziliansCultural Production in a Racial Democracy, pp. 22 - 50Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2009