Unruly Bodies

Life Writing by Women with Disabilities

Author: Susannah B. Mintz
ISBN: 9780807858301

In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern nation. Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the prolific black press of the era, and focusing on the influential urban centers of Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Salvador da Bahia, Alberto traces the shifting terms that black thinkers used to negotiate their citizenship over the course of the century, offering fresh insight into the relationship between ideas of race and nation in modern Brazil. Alberto finds that black intellectuals' ways of engaging with official racial discourses changed as broader historical trends made the possibilities for true inclusion appear to flow and then recede. These distinct political strategies, Alberto argues, were nonetheless part of black thinkers' ongoing attempts t

Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publish Date: 2007

Subjects: Biography & Autobiography / Personal Memoirs, Literary Criticism / Feminist, Social Science / Feminism & Feminist Theory, Social Science / People with Disabilities

This book is available in the following Community Centers: Women's Center (Location: Disabilities)