The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil - Couverture souple

Weinstein, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822357771 ISBN 13 : 9780822357773

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2015

Synopsis

In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes--the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution and 1954's IV Centenário, the quadricentennial of São Paulo's founding--this book shows how both elites and popular sectors in São Paulo embraced a regional identity that emphasized their European origins and aptitude for modernity and progress, attributes that became--and remain--associated with "whiteness." This racialized regionalism naturalized and reproduced regional inequalities, as São Paulo became synonymous with prosperity while Brazil's Northeast, a region plagued by drought and poverty, came to represent backwardness and São Paulo's racial "Other." This view of regional difference, Weinstein argues, led to development policies that exacerbated these inequalities and impeded democratization.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Weinstein is the Silver Professor of History at New York University. She is the coeditor of The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2015
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822357771
• ISBN 13: 9780822357773
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 472
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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