In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition trial documents to travel accounts and literature, Aidoo demonstrates how interracial and same-sex sexual violence operated as a key mechanism of the production and perpetuation of slavery as well as racial and gender inequality.
The myth of racial democracy, Aidoo contends, does not stem from or reflect racial progress; rather, it is an antiblack apparatus that upholds and protects the heteronormative white patriarchy throughout Brazil's past and on into the present.
| ISBN: | 9780822371298 |
| Publication date: | 10th April 2018 |
| Author: | Lamonte Aidoo |
| Publisher: | Duke University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 272 pages |
| Series: | Latin America Otherwise |
| Genres: |
History of the Americas Slavery and abolition of slavery Ethnic studies |
In Slavery Unseen, Lamonte Aidoo upends the narrative of Brazil as a racial democracy, showing how the myth of racial democracy elides the history of sexual violence, patriarchal terror, and exploitation of slaves. Drawing on sources ranging from inquisition trial documents to travel accounts and literature, Aidoo demonstrates how interracial and same-sex sexual violence operated as a key mechanism of the production and perpetuation of slavery as well as racial and gender inequality.
Slavery Unseen features in the following genres: History of the Americas, Slavery and abolition of slavery, Ethnic studies
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Slavery Unseen was written by Lamonte Aidoo and published by Duke University Press
Slavery Unseen has 272 pages
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