Brazilian telenovelas and the myth of racial democracy
Samantha Nogueira Joyce's Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy traces the representations of Afro-Brazilians on television, culminating with the telenovela Duas Caras (2007-2008), and reveals how telenovelas contribute to social change in ways that have not been fully explored in previous scholarship. It also provides a comparative analysis between the representation of Blacks in Brazil and in the United States while it tracks the dynamic process thr
Criticism, interpretation, etc
1 online resource (v, 129 pages)
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Print version:
Episode 1: And let there be white
Black flows: Duas caras, the legacy of whitening and racial democracy
"My little whitey", "my big, delicious negro": telenovelas, Duas caras and the representation of race
Deu no blogão! ("it was in the big blog!"): writing a telenovela, a blog, and a metadiscourse
Duas caras as a new approach to social merchandising
Conclusions