Between Mirrors, Medusas and the Mass Media
Race, Resentment and Status Panic in Brazilian Cultural Backlash
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6235536 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Viktor Chagas (0000-0002-1806-6062, Universidade Federal Fluminense, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2024 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2024-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Brazilian Political Science Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1981-3821 • E-ISSN: 1981-3821 |
| Publisher | FapUNIFESP (SciELO) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1590/1981-3821202400030007 |
| OpenAlex | W4400361667 |
| SCIELO_PID | S1981-38212024000300601 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
is both an urgent and welcome work.The book is pedagogic regarding the differences of class, race and geographic origin in Brazil, and serves as a document both for national researchers and for foreign Brazilianist colleagues.His refined discussion about the resurgence of conservatism and the far right in Brazil in the last decade is part of the best traditions of Brazilian social thought and conjuncture analysis at one time, and combines critical whiteness studies with Marxist and Weberian theoretical frameworks in a particularly successful way, not to mention the scathing critique of contemporary definitions of middle-class politics.The book comprises two case studies, both anchored in textual analyses, one of them concerning the telenovela 'Cheias de Charme', aired by Rede Globo between April and September 2012, which featured three maids as protagonists, two of whom were white and one was black.The other one had to do with the coverage of 'Veja' magazine, one of the most widely circulated weekly news magazines in Brazil and of great political importance, about the affirmative action policies that allowed black people to access
Conservatism · Media studies · Moral panic · Political science · Politics · Race (biology · Racism · Resentment · Sociology · White (mutation · Gender Studies · Law · Political theory and Gramsci · Social Media and Politics
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |