Overview
- Underlines the tremendous impact Obama’s election to the US presidency had on the collective unconscious of the African Diaspora
- Investigates what Obama's victory meant to Brazil
- Examines white male privilege in the US and Brazil and further conjectures about the possibility of the election of a black president committed to Afro-Brazilians and disfranchised segments of society
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte is Associate Professor of Luso-Brazilian and Afro-Brazilian Literature in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Vanderbilt University, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Barack Obama is Brazilian
Book Subtitle: (Re)Signifying Race Relations in Contemporary Brazil
Authors: Emanuelle K. F. Oliveira-Monte
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-58353-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature America, Inc. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59480-8Published: 29 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95538-1Published: 30 August 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-58353-6Published: 27 November 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVI, 208
Number of Illustrations: 35 b/w illustrations
Topics: Latin American Culture, Ethnicity Studies, Latin American Politics, Global/International Culture, Media and Communication