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The definition of prejudice provided by Gordon Allport 60 years ago is still used as an authoritative definition of the term prejudice: ''aversive or hostile attitude toward a person who belongs to a group, simply because he belongs to that group, and is therefore presumed to have the objectionable qualities ascribed to that group''. Unfortunately, prejudice is not simply an attitude that remains internal to its owner, it impacts behavior. Whe...

Racism continues to be manifest in various ways in contemporary societies. It is not a distant "bad" memory, something that previous generations practiced and experienced. However, contemporary racism is rather hidden and aversive, thus its nature has changed with time. This book examines the nature of denial and affective logic of contemporary racism. It presents an empirical study conducted in the city of Sao Paulo to point to various discur...

Migration itself contains the notion of the unknown, and this opens up space for human imagination, for fantasy. This book explores some aspects of how foreigners create an imaginary of Brazilian immigrants and how immigrants themselves reinforce these imaginaries through re-fantasized identities. It will also look at the case of Brazilian self-fantasies in Brazil and their verbalized fantasies of foreigners in Brazil. The book frames the noti...

This book is a theoretical exploration of contemporary forms of resistance, which portrays different ways in which people react to oppression and either resist or consent to hegemonic forces. Responses to repressive dominant ideologies were studied in the context of forms of postcolonial oppression.The analysis contains critical explorations of various cultural phenomena as manifestations of resistance, conformity or subordination, and reconst...