{"product_id":"racial-democracy-in-literary-works-9783639120516","title":"\"Racial Democracy\" in Literary Works","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Isabel C. R. Ferreira\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: VDM Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: VDM Verlag\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: General\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book investigates the way in which African- American and Afro-Brazilian prose fictions perceive and critique the concept of \"racial democracy\" in Brazil. African-Americans view Brazil as a paradise to escape segregation and violence in the 1920s since Brazilian government exports this idea about the country. In the 1960s and 1970s, there is a change in their perspective as some African-Americans visit Brazil. They realize and question racial harmony as they conclude it is a veiled racism and disillusionment. Some Afro-Brazilian writers, at first, portrait Afro-Brazilian characters as oppressed and marginalized, but they are not fully aware of that since there has never been any institutionalized segregation. Later, in the 1960s and 1970s, Afro- Brazilians' movements flourish, influenced by American's movement, bringing self-awareness and a sense of identity to deconstruct the \"myth of racial democracy.\"\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"VDM Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":46890696147095,"sku":"9783639120516","price":6279.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9783639120516.webp?v=1770270371","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/racial-democracy-in-literary-works-9783639120516","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}