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Becoming Brazilians : race and national identity in twentieth-century Brazil
- Title
- Becoming Brazilians : race and national identity in twentieth-century Brazil / Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University.
- Author
- Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig), 1952-
- Publication
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- ©2017
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- Description
- xvii, 327 pages : illustrations, map, portraits; 24 cm.
- Summary
- "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 dance and 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"--
- Series Statement
- New approaches to the Americas
- Uniform Title
- New approaches to the Americas.
- Alternative Title
- Race and national identity in twentieth-century Brazil
- Subjects
- Mestizaje
- Intellectual life
- Brazil > Civilization > 20th century
- Freyre, Gilberto, 1900-1987
- 1900-1999
- National characteristics, Brazilian
- Race relations
- Brazil > Race relations
- Mestizaje > Brazil
- Multiculturalism > Brazil
- Blacks > Race identity > Brazil
- Racially mixed people > Brazil
- Civilization
- Brazil > Intellectual life > 20th century
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Call Number
- Sc E 17-1131
- ISBN
- 9781107175761
- 1107175763
- 9781316626009
- 1316626008
- LCCN
- 2017024671
- 40027393283
- OCLC
- 990778113
- Author
- Eakin, Marshall C. (Marshall Craig), 1952- author.
- Title
- Becoming Brazilians : race and national identity in twentieth-century Brazil / Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University.
- Publisher
- Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2017.
- Copyright Date
- ©2017
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Series
- New approaches to the AmericasNew approaches to the Americas.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40027393283
- Research Call Number
- Sc E 17-1131