Download e-book for kindle: The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman

The colour Of Love unearths the facility of racial hierarchies to infiltrate our so much intimate relationships. Delving some distance deeper than earlier sociologists have into the black Brazilian adventure, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman examines the connection among racialization and the emotional lifetime of a relatives. in accordance with interviews and a sixteen-month ethnography of ten working-class Brazilian households, this provocative paintings sheds mild on how households concurrently withstand and reproduce racial hierarchies. reading race and gender, Hordge-Freeman illustrates the privileges of whiteness via revealing how people with “blacker” good points usually adventure fabric and emotional hardships. From parental ties, to sibling interactions, to nuclear family and romantic relationships, the chapters chart new territory via revealing the relationship among proximity to whiteness and the distribution of love inside of families.

Hordge-Freeman additionally explores how black Brazilian households, really moms, depend on diversified options that reproduce, negotiate, and face up to racism. She frames efforts to switch racial good points as occasionally reflecting internalized racism, and at different occasions as responding to fabric and emotional issues. Contextualizing their techniques inside broader narratives of the African diaspora, she examines how Salvador’s population understand the background of the slave exchange itself in a urban that's known as the “blackest” in Brazil. She argues that racial hierarchies might orchestrate family members relationships in ways in which replicate and reproduce racial inequality, yet black Brazilian households actively negotiate those hierarchies to claim their citizenship and humanity.