Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents

The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism

Warwick Anderson, Ricardo Roque, Ricardo Ventura Santos (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

346 Seiten

2022
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-80073-636-8 (ISBN)

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Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre’s Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speaking world. Encompassing Brazil as well as Portuguese-speaking societies in Africa, Asia, and even Portugal itself, it places an interdisciplinary group of scholars in conversation to challenge the conventional understanding of twentieth-century racialization, proffering new insights into such controversial topics as human plasticity, racial amalgamation, and the tropes and proxies of whiteness.

Warwick Anderson is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History and the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Cultivation of Whiteness (2002), Colonial Pathologies (2006), The Collectors of Lost Souls (2008), and with Ian R. Mackay, Intolerant Bodies (2014).

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Acknowledgments

Introduction

Warwick Anderson, Ricardo Roque, and Ricardo Ventura Santos

PART I: PICTURING AND READING FREYRE

Chapter 1. Gilberto Freyre’s View of Miscegenation and Its Circulation in the Portuguese Empire (1930s–1960s)

Cláudia Castelo

Chapter 2. Gilberto Freyre: Racial Populism and Ethnic Nationalism

Jerry Dávila

Chapter 3. Anthropology and Pan-Africanism at the Margins of the Portuguese Empire: Trajectories of Kamba Simango

Lorenzo Macagno

PART II: IMAGINING A MIXED-RACE NATION

Chapter 4. Eugenics, Genetics and Anthropology in Brazil: The Masters and the Slaves, Racial Miscegenation and Its Discontents

Robert Wegner and Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza

Chapter 5. Gilberto Freyre and the UNESCO Research Project on Race Relations in Brazil

Marcos Chor Maio

Chapter 6. “An Immense Mosaic”: Race Mixing and the Creation of the Genetic Nation in 1960s Brazil

Rosanna Dent and Ricardo Ventura Santos

PART III: THE COLONIAL SCIENCES OF RACE

Chapter 7. The Racial Science of Patriotic Primitives: António Mendes Correia in Portuguese Timor

Ricardo Roque

Chapter 8. Reassessing Portuguese Exceptionalism: Racial Concepts and Colonial Policies toward the “Bushmen” in Southern Angola, 1880s–1970s

Samuël Coghe

Chapter 9. “Anthropobiology”, Racial Miscegenation and Body Normality: Comparing Biotypological Studies in Brazil and Portugal, 1930–1940

Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes

PART IV: PORTUGUESENESS IN THE TROPICS

Chapter 10. Luso-Tropicalism Debunked, Again: Race, Racism, and Racialism in Three Portuguese-Speaking Societies

Cristiana Bastos

Chapter 11. Being Goan (Modern) in Zanzibar: Mobility, Relationality and the Stitching of Race

Pamila Gupta

Afterword I: Mixing the Global Color Palette

Nélia Dias

Afterword II: Luso-tropicalism and Mixture in the Latin American Context

Peter Wade

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	17.10.2022
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-80073-636-3 / 1800736363
ISBN-13	978-1-80073-636-8 / 9781800736368
Zustand	Neuware