Housemaids in Disney
Dissecting Racist Convivial Humour in Brazil
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3631228 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Antonio Bacelar Da Silva (University of Arizona, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 64 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Publication date | 2022-12-19 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Anthropologica (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0254-9212 • E-ISSN: 2224-6428 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press (PUBLISHER • CA) |
| DOI | 10.18357/anthropologica64220221170 |
| OpenAlex | W4312038126 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Brazilians like to make brincadeiras (jokes) about everything, and these brincadeiras often reveal the contradictions and tensions of the particular ways in which Brazilians behave toward social difference. This article revolves around a remark made by a public figure about domestic workers and the organized resistance of antiracism activists and allies, with a focus on Benedita da Silva, a Black Brazilian politician who called out the racism deeply imbued in the remark. This study is rooted in my observations of the contemporary cultural and historical contexts, publications on Brazilian domestic workers, my research on the recent antiracist movement in Brazil, and equally so in a linguistic anthropological approach to discourse. I demonstrate that, armed with the language of antiracism, Brazilians increasingly metadiscursively dissect convivial humour in Brazil in terms of how it enables racist discourse among Brazilians
Aesthetics · Art · Focus (optics) · Racism · Resistance (ecology) · Sociology · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Multilingual Education and Policy
Dreaming Equality
Problems of Dostoevsky's Poetics
Race in Another America
The Dirty Body that Cleans
White but Not Quite
A Semiotics of the Public/Private Distinction
The Denial of Antiblackness
Convivial Labour and the 'Joking Relationship
The Resurgent Far Right and the Black Feminist Struggle for Social Democracy in Brazil
Disparagement humour and gendered racism on social media in Brazil
It was only a joke
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |