Negras in Brazil: Re-envisioning Black Women, Citizenship, and the Politics of Identity

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v ii CONTENTS Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xi Prologue xiii Introduction 1 PART ONE Re-envisioning the Brazilian Nation 1 “A Foot in the Kitchen”: Brazilian Discourses on Race, Hybridity, and National Identity 27 2 Women in and out of Place: Engendering Brazil’s Racial Democracy 50 PART TWO The Body and Subjectivity 3 “Look at Her Hair”: The Body Politics of Black Womanhood 81 4 Becoming a Mulher Negra 107 PART THREE Activism and Resistance 5 “What Citizenship Is This?”: Narratives of Marginality and Struggle 133 6 The Black Women’s Movement: Politicizing and Reconstructing Collective Identities 150 Epilogue: Re-envisioning Racial Essentialism and Identity Politics 177 Notes 183 References 197 Index 219 v iii CONT ENTS ...