Between Brown and Black

by Antonio José Bacelar da Silva

2022 · Rutgers University Press

List of illustrations -- Black into brown, brown into black: Afro-Brazilians grapple with racial categorization -- The language of Afro-Brazilian antiracist socialization -- Performing ancestors, claiming blackness -- Becoming an antiracist or "as black as we can be" -- Who can be black for affirmative action programs in Brazil? -- The complex calculus of race and electoral politics in Salvador -- Conclusion: Afro-Brazilians' black and brown antiracism -- Acknowledgements.