Narratives of violence: the white imagination and the making of black masculinity in City of God

The article explores the regimes of representation of young Black men in the fi lm City of God. The main argument is that the movie deploys pathological scripts of Black men as criminal and deviant to disseminate meanings over black masculinity in Brazil. The author suggests that the controlling ima...

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Autor principal: Jaime do Amparo-Alves
Formato: Artículo científico
Publicado: Universidade Federal de Goiás 2009
Materias:
Antropología
Black masculinity
race
sexuality
nation
urban violence
Acceso en línea:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=70312344009
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=br/br-045&d=70312344009oai
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Red de Bibliotecas Virtuales de Ciencias Sociales (CLACSO) de Consejo Latinoamericano de Ciencias Sociales
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topic Antropología
Black masculinity
race
sexuality
nation
urban violence
spellingShingle Antropología
Black masculinity
race
sexuality
nation
urban violence
Jaime do Amparo-Alves
Narratives of violence: the white imagination and the making of black masculinity in City of God
topic_facet Antropología
Black masculinity
race
sexuality
nation
urban violence
description The article explores the regimes of representation of young Black men in the fi lm City of God. The main argument is that the movie deploys pathological scripts of Black men as criminal and deviant to disseminate meanings over black masculinity in Brazil. The author suggests that the controlling image of Black men bodies as a source of danger and impurity sustains Brazilian racial hegemony; ultimately, the narratives of violence makes explicit the ways the Brazilian nation is imagined through racial underpinning. The dual bind through which the nation is ambiguously imagined is made explicit also in the consumption of Blackness as exotic at the same time that it represents a threat to the national harmony. The nation is then written and re-imagined as a racial paradise even/and mostly by inscribing death to the black body.
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author Jaime do Amparo-Alves
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title Narratives of violence: the white imagination and the making of black masculinity in City of God
title_short Narratives of violence: the white imagination and the making of black masculinity in City of God
title_full Narratives of violence: the white imagination and the making of black masculinity in City of God
title_fullStr Narratives of violence: the white imagination and the making of black masculinity in City of God
title_full_unstemmed Narratives of violence: the white imagination and the making of black masculinity in City of God
title_sort narratives of violence: the white imagination and the making of black masculinity in city of god
publisher Universidade Federal de Goiás
publishDate 2009
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