Category: Brazil

  • Blackness Without Ethnicity: Constructing Race in Brazil Palgrave Macmillan August 2003 256 pages 5 1/2 x 8 1/4 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-0-312-29374-1, ISBN10: 0-312-29374-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-312-29375-8, ISBN10: 0-312-29375-5 Livio Sansone, Vice Director of Centro de Estudos Afro-Asiaticos Universidade Candido Mendes in Brazil Drawing on 15 years of research in Bahia, Rio de Janeiro, Suriname,…

  • Intimacy and Inequality: Manumission and Miscegenation in Nineteenth-Century Bahia (1830-1888) University of Nottingham April 2010 428 pages Jane-Marie Collins Thesis submitted to the University of Nottingham for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Hispanic and Latin American Studies This thesis proposes a new paradigm for understanding the historical roots of the myth of racial democracy…

  • An innovative interpretation of the development of Brazilian literature from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Originally published in 1983, “Three Sad Races” is a study of how Brazilian literature deals with the nation’s racial diversity themes and gives vent to the general disquietude concerning this.

  • The role of the media in influencing social perceptions of racial relations in Brazil Wayne State University 2006 126 pages Publication Number: AAT 3243076 ISBN: 9780542982705 Gildasio Mendes Dos Santos Based on the tenets of Social Identity Theory (SIT), Self-Categorization Theory (SDT), Cross-Group Relations (CGR) and Inter-Group Contact (IGC), this study examined how media programs…

  • Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian Purdue University Press 1994-06-01 248 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN 10: 1557530513; ISBN 13: 9781557530516 eBook ISBN 10: 1612490948; ISBN 13: 9781612490946 José Raimundo Maia Neto, Professor of the Philosophy Federal University of Minas Gerais Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian examines the towering figure of nineteenth century…

  • African-American Reflections on Brazil’s Racial Paradise Temple University Press February 1992 276 pages 5.5 x 8.25 Cloth ISBN: 0-87722-892-2 eBook ISBN: 978-1-59213-104-4 Edited by David J. Hellwig, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota Essays that focus on the authors’ observations of race relations in Brazil from the first decade…

  • Racial Paradise or Run-around? Afro-North American Views of Race Relations in Brazil American Studies Volume 46, Number 1 (Spring 2005) pages 43-60 David J. Hellwig, Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, Minnesota North American students of slavery and race relations have long used comparative approaches to examine the troubling phenomena…

  • Brazilian Racial Democracy, 1900-90: An American Counterpoint Journal of Contemporary History Volume 31, Number 3 (July 1996) pages 483-507 DOI: 10.1177/002200949603100303 George Reid Andrews, Distinguished Professor of History University of Pittsburgh Brazil is one of the largest multi-racial societies in the world, and the home of the largest single component of the overseas African diaspora.…

  • This groundbreaking ethnographic study analyzes everyday practices that leave intact the myth that Brazil is a racial democracy.

  • Carl Degler’s 1971 Pulitzer-Prize-winning study of comparative slavery in Brazil and the United States is reissued in the Wisconsin paperback edition, making it accessible for all students of American and Latin American history and sociology.