Relatos de branquitude entre um grupo de homens brancos do Rio de Janeiro

• Main Author: Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Centro de Estudos Sociais da Universidade de Coimbra 2014-12-01
• Series: Revista Crítica de Ciências Sociais
• Subjects: masculinity; racism; Rio de Janeiro (Brazil); white man; whiteness
• Online Access: http://journals.openedition.org/rccs/5790

This article presents data gathered from research on whiteness among upper-middle class men in Rio de Janeiro who define themselves as white. The research project builds on the theoretical framework of Critical Whiteness Studies and aims to analyze whiteness in order to develop the study of racism in Brazilian society. In extracts from the interviews, some men referred to their black nanny to define their whiteness, even though whiteness was considered socially invisible during the interview. The article therefore focuses on how these men experienced whiteness through the interlinks between color, gender and class hierarchies.