"The Many Faces and Shades of Blackness": Race, Class, and Geography in Early Twenty-First-Century Telenovela Representations.
This article explores how Brazilian telenovelas reflect long-term understandings of race and race relations in Brazil, as well as within the (tele)-visual legacy and representations shared by the slave societies of the Atlantic world. Specifically, it focuses on two TV Globo telenovelas that were es...
| Published in: | Studies in Latin American Popular Culture Vol. 42; pp. 97 - 124 |
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University of Texas Press
2024
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