Brazilian Authoritarianism (eBook)

Past and Present

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz (Autor)

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2022
328 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-23876-0 (ISBN)

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How Brazil's long history of racism and authoritarian politics has led to the country's present crises and epidemic of violenceBrazil has long nurtured a cherished national myth, one of a tolerant, peaceful, and racially harmonious society. A closer look at the nation's heritage, however, reveals a far more troubling story. In Brazilian Authoritarianism, esteemed anthropologist and historian Lilia Schwarcz presents a provocative and panoramic overview of Brazilian culture and history to demonstrate how the nation has always been staunchly authoritarian. It has papered over centuries of racially motivated cruelty and exploitation-sources of the structural oppression experienced today by its Black and Indigenous population. Linking the country's violent past to its dire present, Schwarcz shows why the social democratic left was defeated and how Jair Bolsonaro ascended to the presidency.Schwarcz travels through five hundred years of colonial history to consider Brazil's allegiance to slavery, which made it the last country to abolish the system. She delves into eight elements that pervade Brazil's problematic culture: racism, bossism, patrimonialism, corruption, inequality, violence, gender issues, and intolerance. But Schwarcz also argues that Brazil's future is not absolutely hopeless. History is not destiny, and even as the nation experiences its worst crises ever-social, political, moral, and environmental-it has the potential to overcome them.A stark, revealing investigation into Brazil's difficult roots, Brazilian Authoritarianism shines a light on how the country might imagine a more hopeful path forward.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 13.9.2022
• Übersetzer: Eric M.B. Becker
• Zusatzinfo: 8 b/w illus. 1 table.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: accomplice • adolescence • Adolf Hitler • Adult • Afro-Brazilian History • Afro-Brazilians • against democracy • Agribusiness • Alagoas • Amendment • Anachronism • Anne McClintock • anthropologist • aristocracy • attempt • authoritarianism • black people • Boundary marker • Brazilian real (old) • brazilians • bribery • caucus • Cess • Citizenship • civil service • Clientelism • Clothing • Colonialism • Colonization • community leader • Corruption • criminalization • Cross-dressing • cruelty • Democracy • Democratic recession • Dictatorship • Dilma Rousseff • Disarmament • Disgust • Dissemination • distrust • Divorce • Domestic violence • drug cartel • Economic Inequality • Equality and diversity (United Kingdom) • Estado Novo (Portugal) • ethnic group • ethnography • Everyday life • Executive Order • Fake News • Favela • femicide • Feminist Movement • Finance • Fraud • Gender identity • Government • Governor • Gun Control • Hannah Arendt • Health facility • Ideology • implementation • impunity • Inclusive Growth • income • Indianism (arts) • Indigenous peoples • indoctrination • Infrastructure • Institution • interpersonal relationship • Jair Bolsonaro • Jorge Glas • Journalism • Latin America • Legislation • Leisure • Lesbian • LGBT • LGBT Community • Life Expectancy • Literacy • Mayor • Measures of national income and output • Military Dictatorship • minority group • misogyny • municipality • narrative • National Institutions (Wales) Bill • national security • nation state • Novel • Oligarchy • Operation Car Wash • Ownership • oxfam • Paraguayan War • Patriarchy • Patrimonialism • Patriotism • Pedro II of Brazil • Politician • Politics • popularity • Prejudice • Protest • public agenda • Public institution (United States) • Public Policy • Public sphere • Quilombo • Racism • Rape Culture • rebuttal • reign • result • Rifle • rights • Right to life • Rural Area • Sanitation • scrutiny • Setback (architecture) • Sexism • Sexual assault • Shame • shortage • Siglo XX • Slavery • Smuggling • Social Class • Social Exclusion • Social Group • Social Inequality • social relation • Social Structure • State Government • Statistic • Statute • Theft • Their Lives • The Politician (book) • Torture • Transgender • trans woman • Unemployment • Unspoken rule • Vargas (state) • Violence • Voting • Wealth • Western World • White Brazilians • women's rights • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-23876-6 / 0691238766
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-23876-0 / 9780691238760