TY - BOOK ID - 101209492 TI - Second-class daughters : Black Brazilian women and informal adoption as modern slavery PY - 2022 SN - 1009086634 1316514714 1009093231 1009092111 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Adopted children KW - Slavery KW - Household employees KW - Blacks KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Law and legislation KW - Social conditions. KW - Crimes against humanity KW - Serfdom KW - Slaveholders KW - Slaves KW - Abolition of slavery KW - Antislavery KW - Enslavement KW - Mui tsai KW - Ownership of slaves KW - Servitude KW - Slave keeping KW - Slave system KW - Slaveholding KW - Thralldom KW - Children KW - Adopted infants KW - Children, Adopted KW - Ethnology KW - Black persons KW - Negroes KW - Employees KW - Domestic employees KW - Domestic service employees KW - Domestic service workers KW - Domestics KW - Household staff KW - Household workers KW - Servants KW - Service employees, Domestic KW - Service workers, Domestic KW - Enslaved persons KW - Black people UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:101209492 AB - A legacy of the transatlantic slave trade, Brazil is home to the largest number of African descendants outside Africa and the greatest number of domestic workers in the world. Drawing on ten years of interviews and ethnographic research, the author examines the lives of marginalized informal domestic workers who are called 'adopted daughters' but who live in slave-like conditions in the homes of their adoptive families. She traces a nuanced and, at times, disturbing account of how adopted daughters, who are trapped in a system of racial, gender, and class oppression, live with the coexistence of extreme forms of exploitation and seemingly loving familial interactions and affective relationships. Highlighting the humanity of her respondents, Hordge-Freeman examines how filhas de criação (raised daughters) navigate the realities of their structural constraints and in the context of pervasive norms of morality, gratitude, and kinship. In all, the author clarifies the link between contemporary and colonial forms of exploitation, while highlighting the resistance and agency of informal domestic workers. ER -