Becoming Brazilian

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"This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mesticagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mesticagem moved from a conversation among a small group of intellectuals to become the dominant feature of Brazilian national identity, demonstrating how diverse Brazilians embraced mesticagem, via popular dance and music, film and television, literature, soccer, and protest moveme…

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Full title :Becoming Brazilian.

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Edition Statements

Publication Date:1917.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Cambridge University Press
Place of Publication:Cambridge
Language:eng
Publication Date:1917.

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Description:1 online resource (348 pages)

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781316800058, 1316800059
oclc:ocn994868043
LC Classification:F2510
Dewey Decimal:305.8698

Cover ; Half-title page; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Epigraph ; Contents; List of Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Creating a People and a Nation; Gilberto Freyre and the Myth of Mestiçagem; Gilberto Freyre and Casa-grande e senzala; Constructing Myths, Rituals, and Symbols; Key Themes; Modernism; Decline of the Freyrean Vision; An Overview of the Book; 1 From the "Spectacle of Races" to "Luso-Tropical Civilization"; Constructing State and Nation; Race and National Identity; Modernism and Modernity; Gilberto Freyre and the Creation of the Myth of Mestiçagem.

2 Communicating and Understanding Mestiçagem: Radio, Samba, and CarnavalThe State, Media, and Popular Culture; Radio and the Creation of Samba; Samba, Carnaval, and Getúlio Vargas; Carnaval, Gender, the Malandro, and the Mulata; The Malandro; 3 Visualizing Mestiçagem: Literature, Film, and the Mulata; A New Visual Culture and the Freyrean Mulata; Carmen Miranda: An Iconic Cinematic Mulata?; Carnaval and Cinema; Mestiço Nationalism, Cinema Novo, and Bossa Nova; Creating the Iconic Mulata: Jorge Amado and Sonia Braga; 4 "Globo-lizing" Brazil: Televising Identity.

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Black people -- Race identity Black people -- Race identity -- Brazil Brazil Brazil -- Civilization -- 20th century Brazil -- Intellectual life -- 20th cen… Brazil -- Race relations Brésil -- Civilisation -- 20e siècle Brésiliens Civilization Criticism, interpretation, etc Freyre, Gilberto Intellectual life multiculturalism Multiculturalism -- Brazil Multiculturalisme -- Brésil National characteristics, Brazilian Race relations Racially mixed people Racially mixed people -- Brazil