Racial Revolutions fills a number of voids in Latin American scholarship on the politics of race, cultural geography, ethnography, social movements, nation building, and state violence.ĭesignated a John Hope Franklin Center book by the John Hope Franklin Seminar Group on Race, Religion, and Globalization. Challenging the current emphasis on blackness in Brazilian antiracist scholarship and activism, Warren demonstrates that Indians in Brazil recognize and oppose racism far more than any other ethnic group. Warren argues that many factors-including the reduction of state-sponsored anti-Indian violence, intervention from the Catholic church, and shifts in anthropological thinking about ethnicity-have prompted a reversal of racial aspirations and reimaginings of Indianness. For centuries, the predominant trend had been for Indians to shed tribal identities in favor of non-Indian ones. The growing number of pardos who claim Indian identity represents a radical shift in the direction of Brazilian racial formation. Warren draws on extensive fieldwork and numerous interviews to illuminate the discursive and material forces responsible for this resurgence in the population. In Racial Revolutions-the first book-length study of racial formation in Brazil that centers on Indianness-Jonathan W. Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. Labor and Working-Class History Association.Association for Middle East Women's Studies. Author Resources from University Presses.Journals fulfilled by DUP Journal Services.Lesley Farrell is Director of Focal Point Gallery in Southend. Professor Amelia Jones is Head of Art History and Visual Studies at the University of Manchester. Matthew Shaul is Head of Programming and Operations at University of Hertfordshire Galleries. Her PhD is interdisciplinary, spanning art practice and critical writing and is concerned with issues of ideology, visibility and invisibility in representations of contemporary British Jewry. She studied for her MA in Fine Art at Central St Martins. Garfield's work has been shown in London at the Whitechapel Gallery, the Barbican Art Gallery, the Ben Uri Gallery and at Syracuse University in New York. Rachel Garfield is a London-based painter, writer and video artist whose work explores identity, racism and belonging. With an Introduction by Lesley Farrell, an essay on the intellectual origins of Nazi Germany's anti-Jewish revolution by Matthew Shaul, and 'The Undecidability of Difference', an essay by Amelia Jones on the work of Rachel Garfield. The viewer is never offered pointers as to how they 'ought' to respond. Throughout her work stereotypes are placed alongside the subject of those stereotypes to present us with a complex, multifaceted view of the individuals concerned and their relationship to their communities and histories. Her video work in particular examines the history of racism and xenophobia in Europe and explores the experience of being part of ethnic-minority communities in Britain, through the narratives that people tell about their lives. The presence of the artist herself as both subject and interviewer is also a recurring feature. All her works layer multiple experiences and viewpoints. Artist Rachel Garfield uses video, painting and photography to explore the gap between an individual's own perception of their identity and the perceptions of others.
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