{"product_id":"race-and-the-brazilian-body-jennifer-roth-gordon-9780520293809","title":"Race and the Brazilian Body: Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro","description":"Based on spontaneous conversations of shantytown youth hanging out on the streets of their neighborhoods and interviews from the comfortable living rooms of the middle class, Jennifer Roth-Gordon shows how racial ideas permeate the daily lives of Rio de Janeiro's residents across race and class lines. \u003ci\u003eRace and the Brazilian Body\u003c\/i\u003e weaves together the experiences of these two groups to explore what the author calls Brazil's \"comfortable racial contradiction,\" where embedded structural racism that privileges whiteness exists alongside a deeply held pride in the country's history of racial mixture and lack of overt racial conflict. This linguistic and ethnographic account describes how \u003ci\u003ecariocas\u003c\/i\u003e (people who live in Rio de Janeiro) \"read\" the body for racial signs. The amount of whiteness or blackness a body displays is determined not only through observations of phenotypical features--including skin color, hair texture, and facial features--but also through careful attention paid to cultural and linguistic practices, including the use of nonstandard speech commonly described as \u003ci\u003eg?ia\u003c\/i\u003e (slang). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Vivid scenes from daily interactions illustrate how implicit social and racial imperatives encourage individuals to invest in and display whiteness (by demonstrating a \"good appearance\"), avoid blackness (a preference challenged by rappers and hip-hop fans), and \"be cordial\" (by not noticing racial differences). Roth-Gordon suggests that it is through this unspoken racial etiquette that Rio residents determine who belongs on the world famous beaches of Copacabana, Ipanema, and Leblon; who deserves to shop in privatized, carefully guarded, air conditioned shopping malls; and who merits the rights of citizenship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Jennifer Roth-Gordon\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0520293800\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780520293809\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of California Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/20\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 248\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d","brand":"Jennifer Roth-Gordon","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43996769976575,"sku":"9780520293809","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_3c9b16c4-c237-472b-b077-9959f8c37954.jpg?v=1683343585","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/race-and-the-brazilian-body-jennifer-roth-gordon-9780520293809","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}