Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in BrazilBlackness Without Ethnicity draws on fifteen years of his research in Bahia, Rio Suriname, and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. He compares these Latin American conceptions of race to dominate notions of race that are defined by a black white polarity and clearly identifiable ethnicities, formulations he sees as highly influenced by