Becoming Brazilians

Auteur

Marshall C. Eakin is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. A specialist in modern Brazilian history, he is the author of four books including The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (2007). He co-edited Envisioning Brazil: A Guide to Brazilian Studies in the United States (2005), with Paulo Roberto de Almeida.

Texte du rabat

This book examines how Gilberto Freyre's notion of mestiçagem (race mixing) became the overwhelmingly dominant narrative of national identity in twentieth-century Brazil.

Résumé
This book examines how Gilberto Freyre's notion of mesticagem (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.

Contenu

Introduction: creating a people and a nation; 1. From the 'Spectacle of Races' to 'Luso-Tropical Civilization'; 2. The sounds of Mestiçagem: radio, samba, and Carnaval; 3. Visualizing Mestiçagem: 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.