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Title

Racism and ethnic relations in the Portuguese-speaking world / edited by Francisco Bethencourt and Adrian J. Pearce.

Publication

Oxford [England] ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.

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Additional Authors

• Bethencourt, Francisco.
• Pearce, Adrian J.
• British Academy.

Description

xv, 368 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This volume covers the gamut of inter-ethnic experiences throughout the Portuguese-speaking world, from the 16th century to the present day, integrating history, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, literary, and cultural studies.

Series Statement

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 179

Uniform Title

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 179.

Subject

• Racism > Portuguese-speaking countries
• Portuguese-speaking countries > Race relations
• Portuguese-speaking countries > Ethnic relations

Note

• Proceedings of a conference held in 2009 under the auspices of the British Academy and the Instituto Camões.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-356) and index.

Contents

Colour and race in Brazil : from whitening to the search for Afro-Descent / António Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães -- Brazil and Colombia : comparative race relations in South America / Peter Wade -- Racism, an evolving virus / Jorge Vala and Cícero Pereira -- Mulattos in Brazil and Angola : a comparative approach, from the seventeenth to the twenty-first century / Luiz Felipe de Alencastro -- Charles Boxer and the Race Equivoque / João de Pina-Cabral -- Gilberto Freyre and Brazilian self-perception / Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke -- Writing from the margins : towards an epistemology of contemporary African Brazilian fiction / David Brookshaw -- Indigenato before race? : some proposals on Portuguese forced labour law in Mozambique and the African Empire (1926-62) / Michel Cahen -- The "civilisation guild" : race and labour in the Third Portuguese Empire, c. 1870-1930 / Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo -- Marriage traps : colonial interactions with indigenous marriage ties in East Timor / Ricardo Roque -- The free Afro-Brazilians in a slave society / Herbert S. Klein -- The "general language" and the social status of the Indian in Brazil, sixteenth to nineteenth centuries / Andrea Daher -- The New Christian divide in the Portuguese-speaking world (sixteenth to eighteenth centuries) / José Pedro Paiva -- From Marco Polo to Manuel I of Portugal : the image of the East African coast in the early sixteenth century / Jean Michel Massing.

Call Number

JFE 13-4828

ISBN

• 9780197265246 (hbk.)
• 0197265243 (hbk.)

LCCN

2012275060

OCLC

781497127

Title

Racism and ethnic relations in the Portuguese-speaking world / edited by Francisco Bethencourt and Adrian J. Pearce.

Imprint

Oxford [England] ; New York : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2012.

Series

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 179

Proceedings of the British Academy ; 179.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (p. [313]-356) and index.

Added Author

Bethencourt, Francisco.

Pearce, Adrian J.

British Academy.

Research Call Number

JFE 13-4828