Becoming Brazilians : Race and National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil
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Format
Paperback / Softback
Book Series
New Approaches to the Americas
ISBN-10
1316626008
ISBN-13
9781316626009
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
US
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jul 25th, 2017
Print length
343 Pages
Weight
500 grams
Dimensions
15.50 x 22.80 x 2.10 cms
Product Classification:
History of the Americas20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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This book examines how Gilberto Freyre's notion of mestiçagem (race mixing) became the overwhelmingly dominant narrative of national identity in twentieth-century Brazil. It will be of interest to scholars and students interested in Brazil, Latin America, race, nationalism, national identity, and popular culture.
This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre''s vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation among a small group of intellectuals to become the dominant feature of Brazilian national identity, demonstrating how diverse Brazilians embraced mestiçagem, via popular music, film and television, literature, soccer, and protest movements. The Freyrean vision of the unity of Brazilians built on mestiçagem 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.
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