Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction. Secrets, Silences, and Sexual Erasures in Brazilian Slavery and History 1
5. One. The Racial and Sexual Paradoxes of Brazilian Slavery and National Identity 11
6. Two. Illegible Violence: The Rape and Sexual Abuse of Male Slaves 29
7. Three. The White Mistress and the Slave Woman: Seduction, Violence, and Exploitation 67
8. Four. Social Whiteness: Black Intraracial Violence and the Boundaries of Black Freedom 111
9. Five. O Diabo Preto (The Negro Devil): The Myth of the Black Homosexual Predator in the Age of Social Hygiene 149
10. Afterword. Seeing the Unseen: The Life and Afterlives of Ch/Xica da Silva 187
11. Notes 197
12. Bibliography 227
13. Index 249