Abstract
Brazil is notorious for its racial paradox: the friction between the nation’s alleged racial harmony and the complex realities of racism throughout society. Mediating this tension, as anthropologists João Costa Vargas and Robin Sheriff have argued, is a prevailing silence that cloaks issues of race in popular discourse.1 This silence constitutes what Vargas calls the hyperconsciousness/negation of race dialectic: the tension between the pervasive belief that race should neither be talked about nor addressed and the presence of racial discrimination throughout the country.2 Given this paradox, it comes as no surprise that there has been little formal discussion of environmental racism in Brazil (at least within academic circles) until recently.
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Smith, C.A. (2009). Strategies of Confinement. In: Steady, F.C. (eds) Environmental Justice in the New Millennium. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230622531_5
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