{"id":57818,"date":"2019-05-01T22:11:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-01T22:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57818"},"modified":"2019-05-01T22:12:29","modified_gmt":"2019-05-01T22:12:29","slug":"luso-tropicalism-and-its-discontents-the-making-and-unmaking-of-racial-exceptionalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57818","title":{"rendered":"Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents: The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism"},"content":{"rendered":"

Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents: The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Berghahn Books<\/a>
\nApril 2019
\n346 pages
\n15 illus., bibliog., index
\nHardback ISBN: 978-1-78920-113-0
\neBook ISBN: 978-1-78920-114-7<\/p>\n

Edited by:<\/p>\n

Warwick Anderson<\/strong><\/a>, Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics
\nDepartment of History; Charles Perkins Centre
\nUniversity of Sydney<\/em><\/p>\n

Ricardo Roque<\/strong><\/a>, Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences
\nUniversity of Lisbon<\/em><\/p>\n

Ricardo Ventura Santos<\/strong><\/a>, Senior Researcher at Funda\u00e7\u00e3o Oswaldo Cruz; Professor
\nDepartment of Anthropology
\nNational Museum, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

\"Luso-Tropicalism<\/a><\/p>\n

Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South<\/a> are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre<\/a>, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves<\/em><\/a> claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre\u2019s Luso-tropicalist<\/a> arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speaking world. Encompassing Brazil<\/a> as well as Portuguese-speaking societies in Africa<\/a>, Asia<\/a>, and even Portugal<\/a> itself, it places an interdisciplinary group of scholars in conversation to challenge the conventional understanding of twentieth-century racialization, proffering new insights into such controversial topics as human plasticity<\/a>, racial amalgamation<\/a>, and the tropes and proxies of whiteness.<\/p>\n

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