Slavery Unseen: Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History by Lamonte Aidoo (

Description: FREE SHIPPING UK WIDE Slavery Unseen by Lamonte Aidoo Lamonte Aidoo upends dominant narratives of Brazilian national identity by showing how the myth of racial democracy is based on interracial and same-sex sexual violence between slave owners and their slaves that operated as a mechanism of perpetuating slavery and heteronormative white patriarchy. FORMAT Paperback LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description 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 Brazils past and on into the present. Author Biography Lamonte Aidoo is Andrew W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Romance Studies at Duke University and the coeditor of Emerging Dialogues on Machado de Assis and Lima Barreto: New Critical Perspectives. Table of Contents Acknowledgments ix Introduction. Secrets, Silences, and Sexual Erasures in Brazilian Slavery and History 1 1. The Racial and Sexual Paradoxes of Brazilian Slavery and National Identity 11 2. Illegible Violence: The Rape and Sexual Abuse of Male Slaves 29 3. The White Mistress and the Slave Woman: Seduction, Violence, and Exploitation 67 4. Social Whiteness: Black Intraracial Violence and the Boundaries of Black Freedom 111 5. O Diabo Preto (The Negro Devil): The Myth of the Black Homosexual Predator in the Age of Social Hygiene 149 Afterword. Seeing the Unseen: The Life and Afterlives of Ch/Xica da Silva 187 Notes 197 Bibliography 227 Index 249 Review "Slavery Unseen is an interesting effort to present a little-known side of Brazilian slavery. The book is a good reading both for specialists and for members of the broader public who want to understand the roots of racism and violence that characterize Brazilian society up to the present day." -- Ynaê Lopes dos Santos * Labor *"Slavery Unseen goes beyond typical studies of power and sexual violence by moving away from the quintessential master and enslaved female dialectic. . . . Aidoo has crafted a brilliant and engaging piece of research that will pave the way for future studies of sexuality, power, and violence across the transatlantic world." -- Rachael Pasierowska * H-Net Reviews *"Slavery Unseen is revelatory and will change the field of Brazilian history. . . . [Aidoo] has managed to condense an enormous amount of archival information into a compelling text with major implications for history, literature, gender studies, critical race studies, and Luso-Brazilian studies." -- Gregory Mitchell * European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies *"Originally conceived, meticulously researched, and well written and argued, [Aidoos] book is an intellectually sophisticated interdisciplinary study that examines the race relations and interracial sexual violence that are embedded in Brazilian slavery. . . . Slavery Unseen will certainly leave its vital mark in the fields of Luso-Brazilian studies and Afro-Diaspora studies for years to come." -- Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte * Revista Hispánica Moderna * Review Quote " Slavery Unseen offers a sophisticated interpretation of slavery and its legacy in Brazil in relation to sexual violence, racial terror, and antiblack social prejudice. Lamonte Aidoo engages a wide range of literary texts and other cultural artifacts in showing the central role of sexual violence--and the obscuring of this violence--in Brazils racial formation. Along the way, he offers a magnificent rereading of the nineteenth-century Brazilian literary canon." Details ISBN0822371294 Author Lamonte Aidoo Pages 272 Publisher Duke University Press Series Latin America Otherwise Year 2018 ISBN-10 0822371294 ISBN-13 9780822371298 Format Paperback Imprint Duke University Press Subtitle Sex, Power, and Violence in Brazilian History Place of Publication North Carolina Country of Publication United States DEWEY 306.3620981 Publication Date 2018-04-10 Short Title Slavery Unseen Language English UK Release Date 2018-04-10 AU Release Date 2018-04-10 NZ Release Date 2018-04-10 US Release Date 2018-04-10 Edited by Maksim Kouza Birth 1974 Affiliation Univ Of Illinois At Urbana-champaign, Usa Position Customer Qualifications M.D. Illustrations 9 illustrations Alternative 9780822371168 Audience Professional & Vocational We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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