Introduction; 1. Afro-Brazilian political underrepresentation; 2. Blackness and racial identification in contemporary Brazil; 3. Negro group attachment in Brazil; 4. Negro linked fate and racial policies; 5. Afro-descendant perceptions of discrimination and support for affirmative action.
This book examines Afro-Brazilian individual and group identity and political behavior, and develops a theory of racial spatiality of Afro-Brazilian underrepresentation.
Gladys Mitchell-Walthour is a Political Scientist in the Department of Africology at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She was the 2013–2014 Lemann Visiting Scholar at the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University. In 2016, she was elected the Vice President of the Brazil Studies Association. She has co-edited both Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil (2016) and Brazil's New Racial Politics (2010).
'Gladys Mitchell-Walthour's The Politics of Blackness is a welcome
addition to the burgeoning scholarship on Afro-Brazilian politics.
Her nuanced exploration of ongoing patterns of political inequality
and under-representation impacting Afro-Brazilians will generate
interest among scholars and a more general public seeking to
understand the relationship between color identification, electoral
competition, and group affirmation in contemporary Brazil.' Michael
G. Hanchard, University of Pennsylvania
'Gladys Mitchell-Walthour has produced a pioneering study of
political behavior in three major cities of Brazil: Salvador, Rio
de Janeiro, and São Paulo. Building on recent literature focusing
on race and color in Brazil, Mitchell-Walthour uses
intersectionality theory imbued with knowledge of Brazilian gender,
racial, and economic perspectives. Most important is the author's
dedication to understanding how Afro-Brazilians explain political
inequality and to using a mixed methods approach to understand how
interpretations of life experiences of Afro-Brazilians affect
individual and group outlook on the political world. Including
everyday experience is a crucial component to understanding the
importance of developing Afro-Brazilian influence on the political
culture of Brazil.' Jan Hoffman French, University of Richmond
'The Politics of Blackness, by Gladys Mitchell-Walthour, is one of
the most recent works to be added to this rapidly growing
literature … it extensively documents important qualitative work on
racial politics in Brazil, which is a significant contribution to
the field.' Fabrício M. Fialho, Perspectives on Politics
'… a very nicely executed work, a challenging contribution that
will inspire additional research in this field.' Minion K. C.
Morrison, Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics
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