A Racial Paradise? Race and Race Mixture in Henry Louis Gates' Brazil

    Collection:
    Black Caribbean Literature (BCL)
    Contributers:
    Osuji,Chinyere (Author)
    Format:
    Journal Article
    Publication Date:
    Mar 2013
    Published:
    Philadelphia, PA: Routledge/Taylor & Francis
    Location:
    African American Research Center, Library, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
    Journal Title:
    Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies
    Journal Title Details:
    8(1) : 88-91
    ISBN:
    1744-2222
    Subject Term:
    Blacks, Brazil, Latin America, South America, Inequality, Documentary films, Gates, Henry Louis Jr, and Films
    Notes:
    A critical analysis of Henry Louis Gates, Jr.'s PBS documentary film series Black in Latin America. The author discusses Gates' exploration of the history of early race mixture, the contemporary valorization of Blackness, and racial inequality in Brazil.

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