%0 Journal Article 
%T I’ve killed and I’ve robbed. I’m a man!: The Brazilian Racialized ImagiNation and the Making of Black Masculinity in “City of God”
%J CS;No. 13
%D 2014
%@ 20110324
%U http://www.icesi.edu.co/revistas/index.php/revista_cs/article/view/1829
%X The article explores the representation of young-black men in the 2002 film City of 
God. The film deploys “pathological scripts” of Black masculinity in Brazil as criminal 
and deviant. The controlling image of Black men’s bodies as a source of danger and 
impurity sustains Brazilian regime of racial domination, and the narratives of violence 
make explicit the ways in which the Brazilian nation is imagined though a racial underpinning. Blackness is consumed as an exotic commodity, yet is also understood as a threat 
to national harmony. The nation is, then, written and re-imagined as a racial paradise, but 
mostly by inscribing death on the black body
%K Facultad de Derecho y Ciencias Sociales
%K Producción intelectual registrada - Universidad Icesi
%~ GOEDOC, SUB GOETTINGEN