Becoming Brazilians : race and national identity in twentieth-century Brazil
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Becoming Brazilians : race and national identity in twentieth-century Brazil
（New approaches to the Americas）
Cambridge University Press, 2017
- : hardback
- : pbk
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-314) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mesticagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mesticagem moved from a conversation among a small group of intellectuals to become the dominant feature of Brazilian national identity, demonstrating how diverse Brazilians embraced mesticagem, via popular music, film and television, literature, soccer, and protest movements. The Freyrean vision of the unity of Brazilians built on mesticagem begins a gradual decline in the 1980s with the emergence of an identity politics stressing racial differences and multiculturalism. The book combines intellectual history, sociological and anthropological field work, political science, and cultural studies for a wide-ranging analysis of how Brazilians - across social classes - became Brazilians.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: creating a people and a nation
- 1. From the 'Spectacle of Races' to 'Luso-Tropical Civilization'
- 2. The sounds of Mesticagem: radio, samba, and Carnaval
- 3. Visualizing Mesticagem: film, literature, and the Mulata
- 4. 'Globo-lizing' Brazil: televising identity
- 5. The beautiful game: performing the Freyrean vision
- 6. The sounds of cultural citizenship
- 7. Identity, culture, and citizenship
- Epilogue: nation and identity in the twentieth century, and the twenty-first.
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