Second-class daughters : Black Brazilian women and informal adoption as modern slavery / Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman, University of South Florida.

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022.

©2022.

xiii, 273 pages : maps ; 24 cm.

"In May 2014, a couple posted the above advertisement in the Diário de Pará, a newspaper based in Belém, Pará, Brazil, to find a babá (nanny) for their baby. The publication of an ad of this nature in a mainstream newspaper reflects the pervasive practice of "adopting" young girls into families for the purpose of exploiting them as unpaid domestic workers (Beltrão 2016).1 The listing sparked an uproar among prominent social activist groups in Brazil that marshaled social media platforms to denounce what was viewed as the couple's poorly veiled effort to exploit child labor under the guise of adoption"-- Provided by publisher.

Second class daughters : Black Brazilian women and informal adoption as modern slavery.

Online version: Hordge-Freeman, Elizabeth, 1979- Second-class daughters. Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2022

English

November 18, 2022

Afro-Latin America.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-262) and index.