Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought

Thomas E. Skidmore

Published by Duke University Press 1993

Black into White

Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought

Thomas E. Skidmore

https://doi.org/10.1515/9780822381761

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About this book

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 White is 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 European immigrants and to falsely claim that Brazil had harmoniously combined a multiracial society of Europeans, Africans, and indigenous peoples.

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Thomas E. Skidmore is Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History and Director, Center for Latin American Studies, at Brown University.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Preface to the 1993 edition Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	xxv
1 The intellectual context of abolition in Brazil Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
2 Racial realities and racial thought after abolition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	38
3 Politics, literature, and the Brazilian sense of nationality before 1910 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	78
4 The national image and the search for immigrants Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
5 The new nationalism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
6 The whitening ideal after scientific racism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	173
Note on sources and methodology Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	219
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Selected bibliographical index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	287
Bibliography to the 1993 edition Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	297

Language: English
Publisher: Duke University Press
Pages
- Main content: 334

eBook

Published: November 18, 1992
ISBN: 9780822381761