{"id":32911,"date":"2013-08-16T23:52:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-16T23:52:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=32911"},"modified":"2013-08-16T23:52:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-16T23:52:15","slug":"masculinity-and-whiteness-in-the-construction-of-the-brazilian-republic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=32911","title":{"rendered":"Masculinity and whiteness in the construction of the Brazilian Republic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/agencia.fapesp.br\/en\/17395\" target=\"_blank\">Masculinity and whiteness in the construction of the Brazilian Republic<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/agencia.fapesp.br\" target=\"_blank\">Ag\u00eancia FAPESP: News Agency of the S\u00e3o Paulo Research Foundation<\/a><br \/>\n2013-06-12<\/p>\n<p><strong>Jos\u00e9 Tadeu Arantes<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Sexual discipline and whitening of the population were the guidelines of the conservative modernization promoted by the elite, affirms study<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ag\u00eancia FAPESP \u2013 Masculinity and whiteness were the ideals of the Brazilian elite at the end of the 19th century \u2014 ideals that represented rejection of Brazil\u2019s colonial and monarchical past and the mixed-race heritage of its people and defining a model of sexual discipline and whitening on which to build the Brazil of the future.<\/p>\n<p>From the perspective of this elite, which was at once conservative and modern, the past and the people were associated with nature, instincts and backwardness. The model that inspired the elite was the idealized portrait of more developed countries in Europe and the United States. That idea is the main thread of the book \u201cThe Desire of a Nation\u201d by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Miskolci\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Miskolci<\/a>, professor in the Department of Sociology at the Universidade Federal de S\u00e3o Carlos (UFSCar) and coordinator of the study group \u201cBodies, Identities and Subjectivations,\u201d which brings together several Brazilian universities.<\/p>\n<p>The book, which was the result of <a href=\"http:\/\/bv.fapesp.br\/en\/bolsas\/78071\/a-study-on-the-intersections-of-nation-sexuality-and-race-in-brazil-1880-1900\/\" target=\"_blank\">post-doctoral studies<\/a> at the University of Michigan in 2008 and a <a href=\"http:\/\/bv.fapesp.br\/en\/auxilios\/27511\/the-desire-of-a-nation-the-emergence-of-the-sexuality-apparatus-in-the-brazilian-fin-de-siecle\/\" target=\"_blank\">FAPESP Research Grant<\/a>, also received funding from FAPESP for publication. The book explores how the desires and fears of this elite promoted the transition from a monarchy to a republic and the conservative modernization of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt investigated the national ideas running against the grain through analysis of the specters that haunted our elite: from fear of Negros, which after abolition became a fear of common people, to sexual anxieties and gender, which threatened the project of building a nation based on the idealized image of Europe,\u201d commented Miskolci, who is currently a visiting professor at the Department of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/agencia.fapesp.br\/en\/17395\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Masculinity and whiteness in the construction of the Brazilian Republic Ag\u00eancia FAPESP: News Agency of the S\u00e3o Paulo Research Foundation 2013-06-12 Jos\u00e9 Tadeu Arantes Sexual discipline and whitening of the population were the guidelines of the conservative modernization promoted by the elite, affirms study Ag\u00eancia FAPESP \u2013 Masculinity and whiteness were the ideals of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,21,459,8,394],"tags":[15437,15436,15438,15435,15439],"class_list":["post-32911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-agencia-fapesp","tag-agencia-fapesp-news-agency-of-the-sao-paulo-research-foundation","tag-jose-tadeu-arantes","tag-richard-miskolci","tag-sao-paulo-research-foundation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32911","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32911\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}