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In this book based on the biographical accounts of upper-middle-class white men living in wealthy parts of Rio de Janeiro, Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz analyzes specific experiences of whiteness as they are produced at the intersection of multiple categories—in particular gender, class, and sexuality. White Middle-Class Men in Rio de Janeiro: The Making of a Dominant Subject investigates what it means to be classified as a white person and a man in a society that is known for its valorization of racial mixing and yet deeply structured by racism, class, and gender inequalities. By examining instances of silence and what is left unsaid as well as precise descriptions of power relations and violent episodes, this book encourages the reader to observe the condition of dominant subjects as a keystone of the reproduction of social discrimination.

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In a penetrating analysis that is at once timely and long overdue, Ribeiro Corossacz examines the self-perceptions of Brazil's most privileged citizens: middle-class white men living in the nation's most iconic city. What makes a white man white? she asks her interviewees-and is often met by a telling combination of silences and stories of domination. In highly readable prose, backed by thorough scholarship, Ribeiro Corossacz pursues what Laura Nader long ago called studying up -investigating the lives of those, who by virtue of their constructed identities, wield power and privilege in the durable hierarchies of global capitalism. Readers will discover here a valuable contribution not just to Latin American studies but to urgent theories of intersectionality. -- Robin Sheriff, University of New Hampshire

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Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz is associate professor of anthropology at the Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia.

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