國立高雄大學圖資館 |

Language: English

Back

Blackness and social mobility in Brazilcontemporary transformations /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Blackness and social mobility in Brazilby Doreen Joy Gordon.
Reminder of title:	contemporary transformations /
Author:	Gordon, Doreen Joy.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	xxxvi, 268 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Middle classBrazil.
Subject:	BrazilPolitics and government1930-1945.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90765-5
ISBN:	9783030907655$q(electronic bk.)

Blackness and social mobility in Brazilcontemporary transformations /
Gordon, Doreen Joy.

Blackness and social mobility in Brazilcontemporary transformations /[electronic resource] :by Doreen Joy Gordon. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - xxxvi, 268 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.

Chapter 1. Introduction: A classe media negra nao existe / A Black Middle Class Does not Exist -- Chapter 2. Negotiating Inequality in the 'Black Rome' of Brazil -- Chapter 3. Tension and Support: Family and Personal Connections -- Chapter 4. Sem educacao, nao tem nada / Without an Education, You Have Nothing -- Chapter 5. Keeping up Appearances: Beauty and the Negotiation of Status -- Chapter 6. Religion and Public Life -- Chapter 7. Mobilizing Ethnicity -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Reflections on Brazil and Beyond.

This book examines the emergence of the black middle classes in urban Brazil, after 30 years of black mobilization and against the backdrop of deep economic, cultural, and political transformations taking place in recent decades within the country. One of the consequences of such transformations is said to be the restructuring of gender, race, and class relations. Utilizing qualitative research techniques such as ethnography, interviews, life histories, and focus groups among Afro-descendant families in the Northeast region of the country, the book explores contemporary race, class, and gender inequalities and their impact on daily lived experience. It reveals the dynamics underlying upward mobility, the diverse modes and experiences of social ascent into the middle classes, and the everyday negotiations involved in establishing one's status in the socio-racial hierarchy, which are not captured by other, more "macro" lenses. While some of these patterns are not peculiar to black people, this book argues that "race" shaped the contours and possibilities of social mobility in particular ways. This book is critical reading for specialists in the fields of inequality and race, class, and gender relations. Doreen Joy Gordon is a Lecturer in Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Dr. Gordon's research interests focus on race and other social inequalities, postcolonialism, decolonization, family/kinship, religion and aesthetics, and social justice issues in Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean.

ISBN: 9783030907655$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-90765-5doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

925886
Middle class
--Brazil.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

392377
Brazil
--Politics and government--1930-1945.

LC Class. No.: HT690.B7 / G67 2022

Dewey Class. No.: 305.5508996081

Blackness and social mobility in Brazilcontemporary transformations /
LDR:03146nmm a2200325 a 4500 001 623576
003 DE-He213
005 20220307140013.0
006 m d
007 cr nn 008maaau
008 221209s2022 sz s 0 eng d
020 $a 9783030907655$q(electronic bk.)
020 $a 9783030907648$q(paper)
024 7 $a 10.1007/978-3-030-90765-5 $2 doi
035 $a 978-3-030-90765-5
040 $a GP $c GP
041 0 $a eng
050 4 $a HT690.B7 $b G67 2022
072 7 $a JHMC $2 bicssc
072 7 $a SOC002000 $2 bisacsh
072 7 $a JHMC $2 thema
082 0 4 $a 305.5508996081 $2 23
090 $a HT690.B7 $b G662 2022
100 1 $a Gordon, Doreen Joy. $3 925885
245 1 0 $a Blackness and social mobility in Brazil $h [electronic resource] : $b contemporary transformations / $c by Doreen Joy Gordon.
260 $a Cham : $b Springer International Publishing : $b Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, $c 2022.
300 $a xxxvi, 268 p. : $b ill., digital ; $c 24 cm.
505 0 $a Chapter 1. Introduction: A classe media negra nao existe / A Black Middle Class Does not Exist -- Chapter 2. Negotiating Inequality in the 'Black Rome' of Brazil -- Chapter 3. Tension and Support: Family and Personal Connections -- Chapter 4. Sem educacao, nao tem nada / Without an Education, You Have Nothing -- Chapter 5. Keeping up Appearances: Beauty and the Negotiation of Status -- Chapter 6. Religion and Public Life -- Chapter 7. Mobilizing Ethnicity -- Chapter 8. Conclusion: Reflections on Brazil and Beyond.
520 $a This book examines the emergence of the black middle classes in urban Brazil, after 30 years of black mobilization and against the backdrop of deep economic, cultural, and political transformations taking place in recent decades within the country. One of the consequences of such transformations is said to be the restructuring of gender, race, and class relations. Utilizing qualitative research techniques such as ethnography, interviews, life histories, and focus groups among Afro-descendant families in the Northeast region of the country, the book explores contemporary race, class, and gender inequalities and their impact on daily lived experience. It reveals the dynamics underlying upward mobility, the diverse modes and experiences of social ascent into the middle classes, and the everyday negotiations involved in establishing one's status in the socio-racial hierarchy, which are not captured by other, more "macro" lenses. While some of these patterns are not peculiar to black people, this book argues that "race" shaped the contours and possibilities of social mobility in particular ways. This book is critical reading for specialists in the fields of inequality and race, class, and gender relations. Doreen Joy Gordon is a Lecturer in Anthropology in the Department of Sociology, Psychology and Social Work in the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies, Jamaica. Dr. Gordon's research interests focus on race and other social inequalities, postcolonialism, decolonization, family/kinship, religion and aesthetics, and social justice issues in Africa, Brazil, and the Caribbean.
650 0 $a Middle class $z Brazil. $3 925886
650 0 $a Black people $z Brazil $x Social conditions. $3 925887
650 0 $a Social mobility $z Brazil. $3 925888
650 1 4 $a Sociocultural Anthropology. $3 913540
650 2 4 $a Ethnography. $3 753953
650 2 4 $a Biotechnology. $3 188829
650 2 4 $a Race and Ethnicity Studies. $3 915119
650 2 4 $a Latin American Culture. $3 745000
651 0 $a Brazil $x Politics and government $y 1930-1945. $3 392377
710 2 $a SpringerLink (Online service) $3 273601
773 0 $t Springer Nature eBook
856 4 0 $u https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90765-5
950 $a Social Sciences (SpringerNature-41176)