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: 978-1-78920-114-7
- EAN: 9781789201147
- Produktnummer: 28843761
- Verlag: Berghahn Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 346 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 12'783 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Ricardo Ventura Santos is a Senior Researcher at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz and Professor at the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum, in Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of The Xavante in Transition (2002) and co-editor of Racial Identities, Genetic Ancestry, and Health in South America (2011) and Mestizo Genomics (2014).
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