Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents: The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre's Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speaking world. Encompassing Brazil as well as Portuguese-speaking societies in Africa, Asia, and even Portugal itself, it places an interdisciplinary group of scholars in conversation to challenge the conve…
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Weitere Autoren: Roque, Ricardo (Hrsg.) / Santos, Ricardo Ventura (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-1-78920-113-0
- EAN: 9781789201130
- Produktnummer: 28972177
- Verlag: Berghahn Books Inc
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 346 S.
- Masse: H23.1 cm x B15.7 cm x D2.3 cm 567 g
- Gewicht: 567
Über den Autor
Ricardo Roque is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and currently an Honorary Associate in the Department of History of the University of Sydney. He is the author of Headhunting and Colonialism (2010) and the co-editor of Engaging Colonial Knowledge (2012).
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