Cadernos Negros, vol. 2 (1979). Collection of the University of New Mexico Libraries.

Whiteness and Whitening in Cadernos Negros and Cruz e Sousa
Global Brazil Conference, Duke University
February 28-March 1, 2019

Invited Talk by Ian Erickson-Kery

Based on an archival study of the early editions of the Afro-Brazilian literary journal Cadernos Negros, founded in 1978, this paper situates a series of short stories and poems in relation to political and philosophical discourses on whiteness—as set apart from negritude—between the nineteenth century to the present.