1. Race
1.1. Uncomfortable subject for Brazilians
1.1.1. American's are far more uncomfortable with talking about it
1.1.2. Brazil never had a all-out civil rights movement where Black power/pride was displayed in the public eye
1.2. They speak about ethnicity, rather than race
1.2.1. Unlike in the US where you're either Black or White
1.3. Light-skinned people are more appealing and more likely to succed
1.3.1. Black is unattractive and connected to ugliness
1.3.1.1. Dark skinned women become of value when sexual modification is the operational framework
1.3.1.1.1. Making some women become seductress
1.4. Race and Sex are combined
1.5. Poverty in Brazil is based on race
1.5.1. Lower Class are know to be Black
1.5.2. Upper Class know to be White
1.6. Last place in the world to abolish slavery
2. Coroa
2.1. Method of escaping poverty, is marrying or seducing a coroa
2.1.1. Based on gendered and racialize values of attractiveness in an erotic market
2.2. Symbolic meaning of the low class women persuing for a better life by pursuing a richer, lighter skinned coroa
2.3. Narrative genre illustrating a broader thematic subject among women
2.3.1. Story of of hope among low-income women
3. Brazil is Different
3.1. Popular way for Brazilians to think
3.2. Closer to Latin America and Caribbean, but only when compared to the US about race is Brazil different
3.3. The structures of racism are present in everyday experiences
3.3.1. Black humor jokes and coded saline
3.3.2. Blackness is still associated with slavery, dirty work and ugliness
3.4. Erotic Paradise
3.4.1. Celebrate in historiography of colonialism and slavery
3.4.1.1. More recently about academic literature on sexuality in the 1980's and 1990's
3.5. Primary icon of hot sexuality is Brazil in the Mulata
4. Whitening Ideology
4.1. Turn of the century
4.1.1. Called for the gradual whitening of the African population
4.1.1.1. Through miscegenation
4.1.1.1.1. Suffered in both physical and sociological ways
4.1.1.2. Made is difficult for black organizing around the question of racial identity to take place in Brazil
4.1.1.2.1. Afro-Brazilians are wary of taking price in and declaring their blackness