Slippery stereotypes - hair and the aesthetics of race in Brazil

ABSTRACT Motivated by disputes between Blacks and Whites I analyze strategies to address racism in the 2010’s. A study of Black women’s hairstyles identified explicit modes of claiming race and questions if there has been a change of paradigms. Subsequent research in schools about the proper aesthet...

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Main Author: Mylene Mizrahi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros 2023-05-01
Series:Revista do Instituto de Estudos Brasileiros
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Online Access:http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0020-38742023000100018&lng=en&tlng=en