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Black into White Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought

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ISBN-10: 0822313200

ISBN-13: 9780822313205

Edition: 1993

Authors: Thomas E. Skidmore

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Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore's intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in paperback, this edition has been updated to include a new preface and bibliography that surveys recent scholarship in the field.Black into Whiteis a broad-ranging study of what the leading Brazilian intellectuals thought and propounded about race relations between 1870 and 1930. In an effort to reconcile social realities with the doctrines of scientific racism, the Brazilian ideal of "whitening"-the theory that the Brazilian population was becoming whiter as race mixing continued-was used to justify the recruiting of…    
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List price: $28.95
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 11/18/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 334
Size: 5.60" wide x 8.50" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Preface to the 1993 edition
Preface
Acknowledgments
The Intellectual Context of Abolition in Brazil
The Brazil of 1865
The Rise of a Reform Spirit
Abolitionism
European Thought and Determinist Dilemmas
The Agony of a Would-Be Nationalist: Silvio Romero
Racial Realities and Racial Thought After Abolition
Nature and Origins of Brazil's Multi-racial Society
Varieties of Racist Theory from Abroad
Racist Theory in Brazil
"Whitening," the Brazilian Solution
Comparisons with the United States
Politics, Literature, and the Brazilian Sense of Nationality Before 1910
The Political Realities of the New Republic
Political Criticisms of the New Republic
Literature, Intellectuals, and the Question of Nationality
Reaction to Inadequacy
Turning Determinism on Its Head: The Brazilian Chauvinists
Trying To Live with Determinism
Rejecting the Frame of Reference
The National Image and the Search for Immigrants
"Selling" Brazil During the Empire
Promoting the Brazilian Image, 1890-1914
Immigration Policy, 1887-1914
The New Nationalism
Events Between 1910 and 1920
Brazil and the Outbreak of the European War
National Defense: Nationalism of the Establishment
Mobilization and the New Nationalism
Re-evaluation of Race
Rethinking Brazilian Nationality
The War's Stimulus to Brazilian Nationalism
The Whitening Ideal After Scientific Racism
1920's: Political Crisis and Literary Ferment
Rescuing the Caboclo
The African Heritage
Immigration Policy
The Whitening Ideal
Brazilian Reaction to Nazism: A Digression
Epilogue: Whitening - an Anachronistic Racial Ideal
Note on Sources and Methodology
Notes
Selected Bibliographical Index
Bibliography to the 1993 Edition
Index