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Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy

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Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy - Joyce, Samantha Nogueira
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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 through which Duas Caras worked to debunk the myth and ...

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Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy 2012, Lexington Books, Lanham, MD

ISBN-13: 9780739169643

Hardcover