ABSTRACT
This chapter presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book speaks about both the diversity and similarity and to the contestations generated by disobedient subjects throughout Latin America. Politics inevitably re-enters the terrain of the work rather than it being constructed as an external reality upon which we comment. This, of course, has always been one of the central premises of feminism: it is not surprising, therefore, that feminist discourses should be important to a volume which addresses issues of gender, racism and political identities. Gender is lived through racisms and social constructions of race in Latin America. Nascimentos account is unusual in that, despite the continuing impoverished position the black populations still occupy, very little attention is paid in Latin American literature to the issue of racism and ethnicities in Brazilian society and within Latin America more generally.
