{"id":32423,"date":"2013-07-19T03:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T03:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32423"},"modified":"2016-07-10T00:13:49","modified_gmt":"2016-07-10T00:13:49","slug":"an-earth-colored-sea-race-culture-and-the-politics-of-identity-in-the-post-colonial-portuguese-speaking-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32423","title":{"rendered":"An Earth-Colored Sea: \u2018Race\u2019, Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World"},"content":{"rendered":"

An Earth-Colored Sea: \u2018Race\u2019, Culture and the Politics of Identity in the Post-Colonial Portuguese-Speaking World<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Berghahn Books<\/a>
\n2003
\n176 pages
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\nHardback ISBN: 978-1-57181-607-8
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1-57181-608-5<\/p>\n

Miguel Vale de Almeida<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0\u00a0Professor of Anthropology
\nInstituto Superior de Ci\u00eancias do Trabalho e da Empresa (ISCTE), Lisbon<\/em><\/p>\n

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Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power \u2013 Portugal \u2013 has not been given any attention. This book is the first to explore notions of ethnicity, “race”, culture, and nation in the context of the debate on colonialism and postcolonialism. The structure of the book reflects a trajectory of research, starting with a case study in Trinidad, followed by another one in Brazil, and ending with yet another one in Portugal. The three case studies, written in the ethnographic genre, are intertwined with essays of a more theoretical nature. The non-monographic, composite \u2013 or hybrid \u2013 nature of this work may be in itself an indication of the need for transnational and historically grounded research when dealing with issues of representations of identity that were constructed during colonial times and that are today reconfigured in the ideological struggles over cultural meanings.<\/p>\n

Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n