"Seeing to Make Disappear": The Lingering Ghost of Slavery and Stereotypical Representations of Blackness in Brazilian Telenovelas of the Last Decades of the Twentieth Century.

This article explores the representations of Black Brazilians in telenovelas where the ideology of racial democracy remains evident through the act of "seeing to make disappear"—a complicated process of mutual exclusion and incorporation. Rather than a microcosm per se, telenovelas form integral par...

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Published in:	Luso-Brazilian Review Vol. 60; no. 2; pp. 69 - 104
Main Author:	Berktay, Asligul
Format:	Article
Published:	University of Wisconsin Press 2023
Subjects:	Twentieth century Racial identity of Black people Slavery Black people Physical cosmology Race relations Ideology Brazil
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