Orpheus & Power – the Movimento Negro of Rio De Janeiro & Sao Paulo, Brazil, 1945–1988: The Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, Brazil 1945-1988 - Hardcover

Hanchard, Michael George

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0691032920 ISBN 13: 9780691032924

Publisher: Princeton University Press, 1994

Synopsis

From recent data on disparities between Brazilian whites and non-whites in areas of health, education and welfare, it is clear that vast racial inequalities do exist in Brazil, contrary to earlier assertions in race relations scholarship that the country is a "racial democracy". Here Michael George Hanchard explores the implications of this increasingly evident racial inequality, highlighting Afro-Brazilian attempts to mobilize civil rights groups and the powerful efforts of white elites to neutralize such attempts. Within a neo-Gramscian framework, Hanchard shows how racial hegemony in Brazil has hampered ethnic and racial identification among non-whites by simultaneously promoting racial discrimination and false premises of racial equality. Drawing from personal archives and interviews with participants in the Movimento Negro of Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo, Hanchard presents a wealth of empirical evidence about Afro-Brazilian militants, comparing their effectiveness with their counterparts in sub-Saharan Africa, the United States, and the Caribbean in the post-World War II period. He analyzes the extreme difficulties experienced by Afro-Brazilian activists in identifying and redressing racially-specific patterns of violation and discrimination.

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About the Author

Michael George Hanchard is Associate Professor of Political Science at Northwestern University.

From the Back Cover

"This book will be well received both because of the timeliness of the topic and the novel way in which it is treated. Virtually nothing exists in English that deals carefully with first-hand, participant accounts as this work does. It is also an intriguing development of Gramscian theory as applied to racial/ethnic identity, organization, and conflict."--Lowell Gudmundson, Mount Holyoke College

From the Inside Flap

"This book will be well received both because of the timeliness of the topic and the novel way in which it is treated. Virtually nothing exists in English that deals carefully with first-hand, participant accounts as this work does. It is also an intriguing development of Gramscian theory as applied to racial/ethnic identity, organization, and conflict."--Lowell Gudmundson, Mount Holyoke College

Edition details

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Publication date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0691032920
• ISBN 13: 9780691032924
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 214