Color of Love

ELIZABETH HORDGE-FREEMAN, a 2015–2016 Fulbright Scholar, is an assistant professor of sociology with a joint appointment in the Institute for the Study of Latin America & the Caribbean at the University of South Florida.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction. The Face of a SlavePart I. Socialization and Stigma Chapter 1. What's Love Got to Do with It? Racial Stigma and Embodied CapitalChapter 2. Black Bodies, White Casts: Racializing and Gendering BodiesChapter 3. Home Is Where the Hurt Is: Affective Capital, Stigma, and RacializationPart II. Racial Socialization and Negotiations in Public Culture Chapter 4. Racial Fluency: Reading between and beyond the Color LinesChapter 5. Mind Your Blackness: Embodied Capital and Spatial MobilityChapter 6. Antiracism in Transgressive FamiliesConclusion. The Ties That BindAppendix A: Research Methods and PositionalityAppendix B: Major Interview TopicsNotesBibliographyIndex

"The Color of Love is an insightful treatment of the social psychology of race and the family, ostensibly in Brazil but with observations that have more general applicability." (Social Forces) "Certainly a page turner, Hordge-Freeman makes various scholarly contributions, the biggest being her exploration of how phenotype-based affection can reproduce racial inequality in racialized societies, which hardly any studies of race in the United States and Brazil have done. . . . This book should be read by anyone with an interest in the African Diaspora, race and racism in Brazil, and family socialization practices." (Humanity & Society) "...an important contribution to the growing academic literature on race and color in Brazil. The Color of Love, firmly rooted in the discipline of sociology, is interdisciplinary in the best possible way." (American Journal of Sociology) "The Color of Love provides a necessary narrative that must be included in family research dis-course...I urge family researchers to read [it] to help them in understanding the family unit as a complex societal agent that is capable of resisting and reproducing dominant ideologies and also love." (Journal of Family Theory and Review) "[Hodge-Freeman's] work with an understudied group allows her to add a significant contribution to the field of race. . . . The Color of Love is an excellent ethnographic project." (Symbolic Interaction) "This book makes a great contribution to understanding racial relations in Brazil by considering family and close neighbor relationships, the socialization process, and negotiations of gendered and racialized bodies, from a perspective that dialogues with theories of social stratification, feminist theory while triangulating race, class, and gender." (Revista Brasileira de Estudos de População) "This book undoubtedly offers both theoretical and empirical gems to the sociology of race and inequality as well as to the study of the African diaspora in Latin America and beyond." (Contemporary Sociology) "The ethnographic data on families show that ideas about racial hierarchy operate across a wide range of phenotypes and self-identifications. Hordge-Freeman shows this exceptionally well for Brazil . . . Hordge-Freeman's excellent ethnography interrogates families and bodies as sites of race-making in Brazil." (Latin American Research Review)