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This book investigates the way in which African- American and Afro-Brazilian prose fictions perceive and critique the concept of racial democracy in Brazil. African-Americans view Brazil as a paradise to escape segregation and violence in the 1920s since Brazilian government exports this idea about the country. In the 1960s and 1970s, there is a change in their perspective as some African-Americans visit Brazil. They realize and question racial harmony as they conclude it is a veiled racism and disillusionment. Some Afro-Brazilian writers, at first, portrait Afro-Brazilian characters as oppressed and marginalized, but they are not fully aware of that since there has never been any institutionalized segregation. Later, in the 1960s and 1970s, Afro- Brazilians' movements flourish, influenced by American's movement, bringing self-awareness and a sense of identity to deconstruct the "myth of racial democracy."

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Book category Books in English Language Language: reference & general

• Full title: Racial Democracy in Literary Works
• Author: Isabel C. R. Ferreira
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 196
• EAN: 9783639120516
• ISBN: 3639120515
• ID: 06820869
• Publisher: VDM Verlag
• Weight: 295 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 11 mm
• Date of publishing: 11. November 2009

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