Choreographing exclusion: protest, race, and place in São Paulo.
This essay considers how street protest, a nearly ubiquitous presence in the past decade during Brazil's political turmoil, deconstructs twentieth century mythologies of racial mixing while potentially generating new myths. I analyze protests that dramatize racist and elitist attitudes over public s...
| Publicado en: | Latin American & Caribbean Ethnic Studies Vol. 15; no. 3; pp. 325 - 336 |
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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Aug2020
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