{"id":6318,"date":"2010-03-27T03:29:13","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T03:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6318"},"modified":"2013-01-17T17:09:46","modified_gmt":"2013-01-17T17:09:46","slug":"white-negritude-race-writing-and-brazilian-cultural-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6318","title":{"rendered":"White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

White Negritude: Race, Writing, and Brazilian Cultural Identity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Palgrave Macmillan<\/a>
\nDecember 2007
\n208 pages
\nSize 5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4
\nHardcover ISBN: 1-4039-7595-7<\/p>\n

Alexandra Isfahani-Hammond<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Luso-Brazilian Literature
\nUniversity of California, San Diego<\/em><\/p>\n

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White Negritude<\/em> analyzes the discourse of mesti\u00e7agem (mestizaje<\/a>, m\u00e9tissage, or “mixing”) in Brazil<\/a>. Focused on Gilberto Freyre<\/a>‘s sociology of plantation relations, it interrogates the relation of power to writing and canon formation, and the emergence of an exclusionary, ethnographic<\/a> discourse that situates itself as the gatekeeper of African “survivals” in decline. Taking Freyre’s master\/slave paradigm as a point of departure for theorizing a particular form of racial and authorial impostery, this book analyzes the construction of race and raced writing in Brazil in relation to U.S. identity politics and Caribbean “mestizo projects.”<\/p>\n

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