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Frontmatter --CONTENTS --1. BROGODÓ, BAHIA, BRAZIL --2. GENDER, EMPLOYMENT, AND DIVORCE --3. TELENOVELA RECEPTION AND THE RISE OF ROMANTIC LOVE AND COMPANIONATE MARRIAGE --4. RESPECT, INFIDELITY, AND DIVORCE --5. MARITAL DISTRESS AND SOCIAL SUFFERING --6. MATRIFOCAL KINSHIP AND AMOR VERDADEIRO --7. CONCLUSION --ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --NOTES --REFERENCES --INDEX

AbstractIn this article, I explore the affective landscape of matrifocal kinship in Brogodó to examine how the emotional intimacy that Black women shared with their women kin buffered the effects of unmet marital expectations, marital conflict, and divorce. I describe how women viewed their relationships with their families as a source of love and emotional intimacy that was more reliable and fulfilling than what they could expect from husbands who did not meet the romantic love ideal. Research that relies too heavily on functional assumptions about the relationship between matrifocality and marriage dissolution misses how the desire for emotional intimacy influences women's perspectives on and decision‐making around marriage dissolution. I argue that women's reliance on consanguineal kin as an affective alternative to romantic love and companionate marriage was a critical factor in their decisions to end their marriages. I also assert that rather than weakening extended family ties, in Brogodó the spread of notions of romantic love and companionate marriage strengthened the matrifocal family model by reinforcing women's views that consanguineal rather than affinal kin were at the center of their worlds.

The ethnographic study of tourism in Latin America and the Caribbean offers the opportunity to examine the ways that racial ideologies perpetuate social inequality, debunking the myth of racial democracy in countries such as Brazil. In the case of Brogodó, in Bahia, Brazil, structural inequality and racial ideology limit the equal participation of Brazilians of African descent in the local ecotourism industry. This article draws on evidence from ethnographic research to investigate the relationship of structural inequality, racial ideology, and cultural and symbolic capital. In the ecotourism industry, employer discourses emphasizing the limits of local community members' cultural capital conceal their preference for employees exhibiting both the habitus and phenotypic traits associated with whiteness, reflecting broader social and economic practices that discriminate against African-descendent Brazilians. The ability to naturalize habitus and disguise racial ideology behind discussions of education and qualifications reflects employers' and members of the dominant classes' symbolic power.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword. Reconfiguring the Politics of Knowledge: Writing Transnational Black Feminism from the South / Christen A. Smith -- Introduction / Keisha-Khan Y. Perry and Melanie A. Medeiros -- 1. Reclaiming a Legacy: Black Women's Presence and Perspectives in the Brazilian Social Sciences / Edilza Correia Sotero -- 2. Beyond Intercultural Mestizaje: Toward Black Women's Studies on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua -- 3. The Significance of "Communists Wearing Panties" in the Jamaican Left Movement (1974-1980) / Melanie White / Maziki Thame -- 4. Exercising Diversity: From Identity to Alliances in Brazil's Contemporary Black Feminism / Julia S. Abdalla -- 5. "This Isn't to Get Rich": Double Morality and Black Women Private Tutors in Cuba / Angela Crumdy -- 6 A "Bundle of Silences": Untold Stories of Black Women Survivors of the War in Colombia / Castriela E. Hernández-Reyes -- 7. The Burden of Las Bravas: Race and Violence against Afro-Peruvian Women / Eshe L. Lewis -- 8. A Creole Christmas: Sexual Panic and Reproductive Justice in Bluefields, Nicaragua / Ishan Gordon-Ugarte -- 9. Digital Black Feminist Activism in Brazil: Toward a Repoliticization of Aesthetics and Romantic Relationships / Bruna Cristina Jaquetto Pereira and Cristiano Rodrigues -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ACRONYMS -- INTRODUCTION: Ethnographies of the Brazilian Unraveling -- CRITICAL OVERVIEW: A Plan for a Country Still Looking for Democracy -- Part I: THE INTIMACY OF POWER -- 1. "FAMILY IS EVERYTHING": Generational Tensions as a Working-Class Household from Recife, Brazil, Contemplates the 2018 Presidential Elections -- 2. AMONG MOTHERS AND DAUGHTERS: Economic Mobility and Political Identity in a Northeastern Periferia -- 3. DREAMING WITH GUNS: Performing Masculinity and Imagining Consumption in Bolsonaro's Brazil -- 4. WHITENESS HAS COME OUT OF THE CLOSET AND INTENSIFIED BRAZIL'S REACTIONARY WAVE -- Part II. CORRUPTION AND CRIME -- 5. CRUEL PESSIMISM: The Affect of Anticorruption and the End of the New Brazilian Middle Class -- 6. THE EFFECTS OF SOME RELIGIOUS AFFECTS: Revolutions in Crime -- 7. "LOOK AT THAT": Cures, Poisons, and Shifting Rationalities in the Backlands That Have Become a Sea (of Money) -- 8. "THE OIL IS OURS": Petro-Affect and the Scandalization of Politics -- Part III. INFRASTRUCTURES OF HOPE -- 9. DESPAIRING HOPES (AND HOPEFUL DESPAIR) IN AMAZONIA -- 10. TEMPERED HOPES: (Re)producing the Middle Class in Recife's Alternative Music Scene -- 11. WITHERING DREAMS: Material Hope and Apathy among Brazil's Once-Rising Poor -- 12. BOLSONARO WINS JAPAN: Support for the Far Right among Japanese Brazilian Overseas Labor Migrants -- Part IV. OLD CHALLENGES, NEW ACTIVISM -- 13. HOLDING THE WAVE: Black LGBTI+ Feminist Resilience amid the Reactionary Turn in Rio de Janeiro -- 14. LGBTTI ELDERS IN BRAZIL: Subjectivation and Narratives about Resilience, Resistance, and Vulnerability -- 15. DISGUST AND DEFIANCE: The Visceral Politics of Trans and Travesti Activism amid a Heteronormative Backlash -- 16. "BARBIE E KEN CIDADÃOS DE BEM": Memes and Political Participation among College Students in Brazil -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX