Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents

The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-1-78920-113-0
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 346 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 624 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Anderson, Warwick

Roque, Ricardo

Santos, Ricardo Ventura

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Sozialethnologie: Familie, Gender, Soziale Gruppen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations

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

Über Autor(innen)

Roque, Ricardo
Ricardo Roque is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Social Sciences of the University of Lisbon and currently an Honorary Associate in the Department of History of the University of Sydney. He is the author of Headhunting and Colonialism (2010) and the co-editor of Engaging Colonial Knowledge (2012).

Anderson, Warwick
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).

Santos, Ricardo Ventura
Ricardo Ventura Santos is a Senior Researcher at Fundação Oswaldo Cruz and Professor at the Department of Anthropology of the National Museum, in Rio de Janeiro. He is the author of The Xavante in Transition (2002) and co-editor of Racial Identities, Genetic Ancestry, and Health in South America (2011) and Mestizo Genomics (2014).

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).