Color Blind Erotic Democracies, Black Consciousness Politics, and the Black Cinderellas of Felicidade Eterna
by Crystal McGuire
1. How to get ahead
1.1. seduce the "coroas"
1.1.1. older, richer, whiter men
1.1.2. age and wealth or class
1.1.3. based on gendered and radicalized values of attractiveness
2. Interracial Relationships
2.1. Fausto and Eliana
2.2. Color as indicative of class relations
3. Race
3.1. North American culture surrounding race
3.2. Brazilian culture surrounding race
3.2.1. "multiple mode"
3.2.2. race as multiple categories
3.2.3. "color-blind" sexuality?
3.3. Race-based affirmative action
3.4. Commodifying black female bodies
3.5. Silence as cultural censorship
3.6. jokes, innuendos, and stories as hidden discourse
4. Blackness
4.1. dirtiness
4.2. slavery
4.3. ugliness
5. Ana Flavia (Black Cinderella)
5.1. physical abuse
5.2. governor's daughter
5.3. systematic relation between class and race in Brazil
6. Coroa's money
6.1. a polysemic symbol embodying a culture of wealth
6.2. upper-class norms of behavior and education
7. Commodifications of Black Bodies
7.1. mulata seductress
7.1.1. tropical, sensual untamed, brazilian
7.1.2. beautiful and dangerous
7.2. black sexuality
7.2.1. other, erotic, yet pathological
7.2.2. 4 imgaes
7.2.2.1. the mammy
7.2.2.2. the matriarch
7.2.2.3. the welfare mother
7.2.2.4. the jezebel
7.3. the muleta as an Exotic Other
7.3.1. "Brazilian babes" in pornogrpahy
7.3.2. justification for sexual violence