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The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture) by Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Winner, Section on the Sociology of Emotions Outstanding Recent Contribution (Book) Award, American Sociological Association, 2016 Charles Horton Cooley Award for Recent Book, Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction , 2017 Best Publication Award, Section on Body and Embodiment, American Sociological Association (ASA), 2018 The Color Of Love reveals the power of racial hierarchies to infiltrate our most intimate relationships. Delving far deeper than previous sociologists have into the black Brazilian experience, Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman examines the relationship between racialization and the emotional life of a family. Based on interviews and a sixteen-month ethnography of ten working-class Brazilian families, this provocative work sheds light on how families simultaneously resist and reproduce racial hierarchies. Examining race and gender, Hordge-Freeman illustrates the privileges of whiteness by revealing how those with “blacker” features often experience material and emotional hardships. From parental ties, to sibling interactions, to extended family and romantic relationships, the chapters chart new territory by revealing the connection between proximity to whiteness and

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman
Publisher
University Of Texas Press,
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9781477307885
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, Social Science, Sociology
Rating
4.8 / 5 (18 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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