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- Author: Isabel C R Ferreira
- Publisher: VDM Verlag
- ISBN-10: 3639120515
- ISBN-13: 9783639120516
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm, softcover
- Language: English
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This book investigates the way in which African- American and Afro-Brazilian prose fictions perceive and critique the concept of "racial democracy" in Brazil. African-Americans view Brazil as a paradise to escape segregation and violence in the 1920s since Brazilian government exports this idea about the country. In the 1960s and 1970s, there is a change in their perspective as some African-Americans visit Brazil. They realize and question racial harmony as they conclude it is a veiled racism and disillusionment. Some Afro-Brazilian writers, at first, portrait Afro-Brazilian characters as oppressed and marginalized, but they are not fully aware of that since there has never been any institutionalized segregation. Later, in the 1960s and 1970s, Afro- Brazilians' movements flourish, influenced by American's movement, bringing self-awareness and a sense of identity to deconstruct the "myth of racial democracy."
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- Author: Isabel C R Ferreira
- Publisher: VDM Verlag
- ISBN-10: 3639120515
- ISBN-13: 9783639120516
- Format: 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.1 cm, softcover
- Language: English English
This book investigates the way in which African- American and Afro-Brazilian prose fictions perceive and critique the concept of "racial democracy" in Brazil. African-Americans view Brazil as a paradise to escape segregation and violence in the 1920s since Brazilian government exports this idea about the country. In the 1960s and 1970s, there is a change in their perspective as some African-Americans visit Brazil. They realize and question racial harmony as they conclude it is a veiled racism and disillusionment. Some Afro-Brazilian writers, at first, portrait Afro-Brazilian characters as oppressed and marginalized, but they are not fully aware of that since there has never been any institutionalized segregation. Later, in the 1960s and 1970s, Afro- Brazilians' movements flourish, influenced by American's movement, bringing self-awareness and a sense of identity to deconstruct the "myth of racial democracy."
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