Brazil, Mixture or Massacre? Essays in the Genocide of a Black People

by Do Nascimento, Abdias; Elisa Larkin

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Book description: Buffalo, New York: Afrodiaspora SUNY Buffalo. Very Good 1979. Softcover. Acidfree 1stEd; ocassional u-lines not clearance or discard. Mails from NYC usually within 12 hours.; 0.45 x 8.48 x 5.52 Inches; 214 pages; Afrocentrist critiques the Brazilian "melting pot.", July 13, 2002By Jeffery Mingo (Homewood, IL USA) - Abdias do Nascimento is a black Brazilian scholar and a very interesting writer. In this book, he claims that all these ideas that Brazil is wonderful because it is so racially-blended are nothing but a racist attempt to erase the contributions of and downplay the struggles faced by black Brazilians. Now that even white American conservatives are embracing multiracial people and activism, do Nascimento's thoughts may rub many the wrong way, especially mixed-race individuals. Still, this is an important Afrocentric text. Black Americans know too little about their brothers and sisters in Brazil. This book introduced me to the term "Quilombismo," a Brazilian concept paralleling Afrocentrism or Negritude. Do Nascimento is trying to change the defaults through which people see his country in order to help the blacks there. He called African Americans "African at heart, but kind of cold like their white English-speaking peers"; I laughed hard reading that. Every Afrocentric reader will learn much by grabbing a copy of this text. .

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