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Moulin, Maria Teresa

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How Brazil's Hip-Hop Culture Looks to Redefine Race

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Schiwy, Freya

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UC Riverside

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2010

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UC Riverside

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2010

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My dissertation examines the representation of Afro-Brazilians within the contemporary culture production ofSão Paulo and Rio de Janeiro, specifically in three novels,rap music, and the hip-hop community. The novels form adiverse corpus of works. Two were published during the1990s by middle-class canonical writers, Subúrbio (1994) byFernando Bonassi and Cidade de Deus (1997) by Paulo Lins.Bonassi offers a homogenous vision of the margins whileLins presents them as diverse. Yet, both draw on amaterialist approach that leads the protagonists toward anapocalyptic conclusion. The third novel was published by aresident of a favela in the outskirts of São Paulo,Graduado em Marginalidade (2004) by Sacolinha. This novelviiipresents a complex and at times contradicting view offavela life. Graduado offers the possibility for socialadvancement as the novel seeks to redefine race withinBrazil. Rap music and the hip-hop community present acritical view of Brazilian culture and history. Throughlyrics, musical form, and activism hip-hoppers look tocontest, question, and alter established ideas of race inBrazil. Much like Sacolinha's novel, hip-hoppers redefinerace in order to rewrite their future and in the processbreak from the cycle of violence and drugs that threatensthe well-being of Brazil's most marginalized. Utilizingmaterialist and postcolonial theories this study exploreshow these cultural forms contribute toward understandingrepresentations of race within Brazilian urban culture.

Moulin, Maria Teresa

Schiwy, Freya

UC Riverside

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