Introduction : secrets, silence, and sexual erasures in Brazilian slavery and history. The racial and sexual paradoxes of Brazilian slavery and national identity -- Illegible violence : the rape and sexual abuse of male slaves -- The white mistress and the slave woman : seduction, violence, and exploitation -- Social whiteness : Black intraracial violence and the boundaries of Black freedom -- O diabo preto (the Negro devil) : the myth of the Black homosexual predator in the age of social hygiene -- Afterword : seeing the unseen : the life and afterlives of Ch / Xica da Silva.
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