Tag: Gladys L. Mitchell

  • Race is an elusive category and provides an even more elusive way to forge a sense of collective belonging. Nobody is more aware of this elusiveness than Brazilian black-power activists. For most of the history of blacks in Brazil, Africans and their descendents had a strong sense of being different from their white slaveholders. This difference was…

  • Brazil’s New Racial Politics Lynne Rienner Publishers 2009 251 pages ISBN: 978-1-58826-666-8 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Political Science University of South Florida Gladys L. Mitchell (Gladys Mitchell-Walthour), Assistant Professor of Political Science Denison University, Granville, Ohio As the popular myth of racial equality in Brazil crumbles beneath the weight of current grassroots…