Overview
Revises the classic narrative about black social mobility in Brazil
Focuses on the material, social, and symbolic practices of Afro-Brazilians
Contextualizes individual social ascension in broader society
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the emergence of the black middle classes in urban Brazil, after 30 years of black mobilization and against the backdrop of deep economic, cultural, and political transformations taking place in recent decades within the country. One of the consequences of such transformations is said to be the restructuring of gender, race, and class relations. Utilizing qualitative research techniques such as ethnography, interviews, life histories, and focus groups among Afro-descendant families in the Northeast region of the country, the book explores contemporary race, class, and gender inequalities and their impact on daily lived experience. It reveals the dynamics underlying upward mobility, the diverse modes and experiences of social ascent into the middle classes, and the everyday negotiations involved in establishing one's status in the socio-racial hierarchy, which are not captured by other, more "macro" lenses. While some of these patterns are not peculiar to black people, this book argues that "race" shaped the contours and possibilities of social mobility in particular ways. This book is critical reading for specialists in the fields of inequality and race, class, and gender relations.
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--Edison Bertoncelo, Professor of Sociology, University of Sao Paulo
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Doreen Joy Gordon is a Lecturer in Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Dr. Gordon's research interests focus on race and other social inequalities, postcolonialism, decolonization, family/kinship, religion and aesthetics, and social justice issues in Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Blackness and Social Mobility in Brazil
Book Subtitle: Contemporary Transformations
Authors: Doreen Joy Gordon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90765-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90764-8Published: 08 March 2022
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-90767-9Published: 09 March 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-90765-5Published: 07 March 2022
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 268
Number of Illustrations: 21 b/w illustrations
Topics: Social Anthropology, Ethnography, Ethnicity Studies, Sociology of Racism, Latin American Culture