Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World

Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World
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Publisher : OUP/British Academy
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 0197265243
ISBN-13 : 9780197265246
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Synopsis Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World by : Francisco Bethencourt

The book covers the gamut of inter-ethnic experiences throughout the Portuguese-speaking world, from the sixteenth century to the present day, integrating history, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, literary, and cultural studies.

Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-speaking World

Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-speaking World
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Total Pages : 368
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ISBN-10 : 0191754196
ISBN-13 : 9780191754197
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Synopsis Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-speaking World by : Francisco Bethencourt

This volume covers the gamut of inter-ethnic experiences throughout the Portuguese-speaking world, from the 16th century to the present day, integrating history, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, literary, and cultural studies.

Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World

Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 300
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ISBN-10 : 9789004459397
ISBN-13 : 9004459391
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Synopsis Gendering the Portuguese-Speaking World by :

This book explores the significance of gender in shaping the Portuguese-speaking world from the Middle Ages to the present. Sixteen scholars from disciplines including history, sociology, anthropology, linguistics, literature and cultural studies analyse different configurations and literary representations of women's rights and patriarchal constraints. Unstable constructions of masculinity, femininity, queer, homosexual, bisexual, and transgender identities and behaviours are placed in historical context. The volume pioneers in gendering the Portuguese expansion in Africa, Asia, and the New World and pays particular attention to an inclusive account of indigenous agencies. Contributors are: Darlene Abreu-Ferreira, Vanda Anastácio, Francisco Bethencourt, Dorothée Boulanger, Rosa Maria dos Santos Capelão, Maria Judite Mário Chipenembe, Gily Coene, Philip J. Havik, Ben James, Anna M. Klobucka, Chia Longman, Amélia Polónia, Ana Maria S. A. Rodrigues, Isabel dos Guimarães Sá, Ana Cristina Santos, and João Paulo Silvestre.

Race in Another America

Race in Another America
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 337
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ISBN-10 : 9780691127927
ISBN-13 : 0691127921
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Synopsis Race in Another America by : Edward E. Telles

This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that race relations in Brazil are far more harmonious because the country encourages race mixture rather than formal or informal segregation. More recently, however, scholars have challenged this national myth, seeking to show that race relations are characterized by exclusion, not inclusion, and that fair-skinned Brazilians continue to be privileged and hold a disproportionate share of wealth and power. In this sociological and demographic study, Edward Telles seeks to understand the reality of race in Brazil and how well it squares with these traditional and revisionist views of race relations. He shows that both schools have it partly right--that there is far more miscegenation in Brazil than in the United States--but that exclusion remains a serious problem. He blends his demographic analysis with ethnographic fieldwork, history, and political theory to try to "understand" the enigma of Brazilian race relations--how inclusiveness can coexist with exclusiveness. The book also seeks to understand some of the political pathologies of buying too readily into unexamined ideas about race relations. In the end, Telles contends, the traditional myth that Brazil had harmonious race relations compared with the United States encouraged the government to do almost nothing to address its shortcomings.

Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents

Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents
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Publisher : Berghahn Books
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 1789201136
ISBN-13 : 9781789201130
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Synopsis Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents by : Warwick Anderson

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.

Cosmopolitanism in the Portuguese-Speaking World

Cosmopolitanism in the Portuguese-Speaking World
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Publisher : BRILL
Total Pages : 313
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ISBN-10 : 9789004353435
ISBN-13 : 9004353437
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Synopsis Cosmopolitanism in the Portuguese-Speaking World by :

This book addresses different dimensions of cosmopolitanism in the Portuguese-speaking world which have caused much debate, such as migration and globalisation. The volume includes contributions from leading specialists in History, Musicology, Literary Studies, Anthropology and Political Sciences. It focuses on specific processes in Brazil, Portugal, West Africa, Angola, and other parts of the world, from the sixteenth century to the present. Central topics are intercontinental trading elites, the cultural impact of forced and voluntary migration, the republic of letters, the possibilities created by freemasonry and liberalism, the adaptation of the Azorean Holy Ghost Feast to the United States, international links of conservative politicians, the international projection of the new Angolan elite, architecture and urban planning. Contributors are: Vanda Anastácio, Cátia Antunes, Paulo Arruda, Francisco Bethencourt, Toby Green, Philip J. Havik, David R. M. Irving, João Leal, Giovanni Leoni, Ricardo Soares de Oliveira, António Costa Pinto, and Phillip Rothwell.

Lusophone Africa

Lusophone Africa
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Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages : 345
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ISBN-10 : 9780816669837
ISBN-13 : 081666983X
Rating : 4/5 (37 Downloads)

Synopsis Lusophone Africa by : Fernando Arenas

Situates the cultures of Portuguese-speaking Africa within the postcolonial, global era.

Racisms

Racisms
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 460
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ISBN-10 : 9780691169750
ISBN-13 : 0691169756
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Synopsis Racisms by : Francisco Bethencourt

A groundbreaking history of racism Racisms is the first comprehensive history of racism, from the Crusades to the twentieth century. Demonstrating that there is not one continuous tradition of racism, Francisco Bethencourt shows that racism preceded any theories of race and must be viewed within the prism and context of social hierarchies and local conditions. In this richly illustrated book, Bethencourt argues that in its various aspects, all racism has been triggered by political projects monopolizing specific economic and social resources. Racisms focuses on the Western world, but opens comparative views on ethnic discrimination and segregation in Asia and Africa. Bethencourt looks at different forms of racism, and explores instances of enslavement, forced migration, and ethnic cleansing, while analyzing how practices of discrimination and segregation were defended. This is a major interdisciplinary work that moves away from ideas of linear or innate racism and recasts our understanding of interethnic relations.

Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge

Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 317
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ISBN-10 : 9781526165541
ISBN-13 : 1526165546
Rating : 4/5 (41 Downloads)

Synopsis Race, bordering and disobedient knowledge by : Suvi Keskinen

Developing the concept of 'disobedient knowledge', this book provides new perspectives on activism and everyday struggles against racism and bordering. Drawing on empirical material from distinct contexts in Northern, Western and Southern Europe, the chapters explore how different kinds of (b)orders are challenged and possibly also maintained in everyday antiracism, activism and struggles against borders. The book examines resistance and disobedience in relation to borders, social orders, conventional practices and hegemonic discourses. It underscores the importance of studying racism and bordering as intertwined phenomena. With a focus on the historical layers of resistance, disobedient practices and ways of building shared struggles, the book provides invaluable knowledge about postcolonial Europe and its future possibilities.

Violence and Gender in Africa's Iberian Colonies

Violence and Gender in Africa's Iberian Colonies
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 371
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ISBN-10 : 9783030172305
ISBN-13 : 3030172309
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Synopsis Violence and Gender in Africa's Iberian Colonies by : Andreas Stucki

This book examines how and why Portugal and Spain increasingly engaged with women in their African colonies in the crucial period from the 1950s to the 1970s. It explores the rhetoric of benevolent Iberian colonialism, gendered Westernization, and development for African women as well as actual imperial practices – from forced resettlement to sexual exploitation to promoting domestic skills. Focusing on Angola, Mozambique, Western Sahara, and Equatorial Guinea, the author mines newly available and neglected documents, including sources from Portuguese and Spanish women’s organizations overseas. They offer insights into how African women perceived and responded to their assigned roles within an elite that was meant to preserve the empires and stabilize Afro-Iberian ties. The book also retraces parallels and differences between imperial strategies regarding women and the notions of African anticolonial movements about what women should contribute to the struggle for independence and the creation of new nation-states.