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Second-Class Daughters - Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery (Paperback)
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Second-Class Daughters - Black Brazilian Women and Informal Adoption as Modern Slavery (Paperback)
Series: Afro-Latin America
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A legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, Brazil is home to the
largest number of African descendants outside Africa and the
greatest number of domestic workers in the world. Drawing on ten
years of interviews and ethnographic research, the author examines
the lives of marginalized informal domestic workers who are called
'adopted daughters' but who live in slave-like conditions in the
homes of their adoptive families. She traces a nuanced and, at
times, disturbing account of how adopted daughters, who are trapped
in a system of racial, gender, and class oppression, live with the
coexistence of extreme forms of exploitation and seemingly loving
familial interactions and affective relationships. Highlighting the
humanity of her respondents, Hordge-Freeman examines how filhas de
criacao (raised daughters) navigate the realities of their
structural constraints and in the context of pervasive norms of
morality, gratitude, and kinship. In all, the author clarifies the
link between contemporary and colonial forms of exploitation, while
highlighting the resistance and agency of informal domestic
workers.
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