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Race and the Brazilian Body Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro jennifer roth-gordon University of California Press This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:44:35 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Race and the Brazilian Body This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:44:35 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:44:35 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Race and the Brazilian Body Blackness, Whiteness, and Everyday Language in Rio de Janeiro jennifer roth-gordon University of California Press This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:44:35 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms University of California Press, one of the most distinguished university presses in the United States, enriches lives around the world by advancing scholarship in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences. Its activities are supported by the UC Press Foundation and by philanthropic contributions from individuals and institutions. For more information, visit www.ucpress.edu. University of California Press Oakland, California © 2017 by The Regents of the University of California Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Roth-Gordon, Jennifer, author. Title: Race and the Brazilian Body : blackness, whiteness, and everyday language in Rio de Janeiro / Jennifer Roth-Gordon. Description: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017] | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: lccn 2016031605| isbn 9780520293793 (cloth : alk. paper) | isbn 9780520293809 (pbk. : alk. paper) Subjects: lcsh: Blacks—Race identity—Brazil—Rio de Janeiro. | B razil—Ethnic relations. | Human skin color—Social aspects— Brazil—Rio de Janeiro. | Blacks—Language—Social aspects—Brazil. Classification: lcc f2659.n4 r68 2017 | ddc 305.800981—dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2016031605 Manufactured in the United States of America 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:44:35 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms For Derek Thank you for taking this journey with me This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:44:35 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:44:35 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. brazil’s “comfortable racial contradiction” 1 2 . “good” appearances: race, language, and citizenship 42 3 . investing in whiteness: middle-class practices of linguistic discipline 69 4 . fears of racial contact: crime, violence, and the struggle over urban space 95 5 . avoiding blackness: the flip side of boa aparência 128 6. making the mano: the uncomfortable visibility of blackness in politically conscious brazilian hip-hop 161 conclusion: “seeing” race 185 Notes 195 References 203 Index 223 This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:48:33 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms This page intentionally left blank This content downloaded from 132.239.1.231 on Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:48:33 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms Acknowledgments Once upon a time, I set out to study slang in Rio. I am eternally grateful to my academic mentors at Brown University and Stanford University who set me on the course of linguistic anthropology and nurtured my passion for studying language in sociopolitical context: Bill Beeman, Penny Eckert, Jim Fox, Miyako Inoue, and John Rickford. Penny Eckert consistently set a high bar, and I wouldn’t be where I am now without her. I have been fortunate to have received guidance and support from senior colleagues and peers, and I would like to acknowledge, in particular, H. Samy Alim, Sarah Benor, Mary Bucholtz, Rudi Gaudio, Perry Gilmore, Lanita Jacobs, Shari Jacobson, Shoshanna Lurie, Bonnie McElhinny, Janet McIntosh, Jacqui Messing, Deborah Tannen, Kit Woolard, and Leisy Wyman. My academic interests evolved to include the study of race, and I thank Matt Guterl for welcoming me into the world of ethnic studies. I hope our research paths will continue to converge. I have been honored to have been a part of the Linguistic Anthropology program at the University of Arizona since 2004, where Jane Hill, Norma Mendoza-Denton, Susan Philips, and Qing Zhang have all been incredibly supportive and fun to work with. I also gratefully acknowledge the support of colleagues Bert Barickman, Ana Maria Carvalho, Mark and Mimi Nichter, John Olsen, Ivy Pike, and Dani Triadan. My graduate students have offered semester after semester of inspira- tion, and I look forward to many years as their colleague and friend. I am especially grateful to those I worked most closely with: Julie Armin, Micah Boyer, Joon-Beom Chu, Ufuk Cos¸kun, Mary Good, Lauren Hayes, Parvaneh Hosseini, Ben McMahan, Melanie Medeiros, Keri Miller, Jessica Nelson, Dana Osborne, Lucero Radonic, Antonio Bacelar da Silva, Ashley Stinnett, Angela Storey, and Maisa Taha. My “failed whiteness” reading-writing group, including Lori Labotka, Sarah Raskin, and Megan Sheehan, helped ix This content downloaded from 132.239.1.230 on Wed, 18 Jan 2017 19:50:58 UTC All use subject to http://about.jstor.org/terms
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