Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents : : The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism / / ed. by Warwick Anderson, Ricardo Ventura Santos, Ricardo Roque.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• MitwirkendeR: Anderson, Warwick,; Bastos, Cristiana,; Castelo, Cláudia,; Coghe, Samuël,; Dent, Rosanna,; Dias, Nélia,; Dávila, Jerry,; Gupta, Pamila,; Macagno, Lorenzo,; Maio, Marcos Chor,; Roque, Ricardo,; Santos, Ricardo Ventura,; Souza, Vanderlei Sebastião de,; Vimieiro-Gomes, Ana Carolina,; Wade, Peter,; Wegner, Robert,
• HerausgeberIn: Anderson, Warwick,; Roque, Ricardo,; Santos, Ricardo Ventura,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (346 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Maps and Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- PART I Picturing and Reading Freyre -- Chapter 1 Gilberto Freyre’s View of Miscegenation and Its Circulation in the Portuguese Empire, 1930s–1960s -- Chapter 2 Gilberto Freyre Racial Populism and Ethnic Nationalism -- Chapter 3 Anthropology and Pan-Africanism at the Margins of the Portuguese Empire: Trajectories of Kamba Simango -- PART II Imaging a Mixed-Race Nation -- Chapter 4 Eugenics, Genetics, and Anthropology in Brazil: The Masters and the Slaves, Racial Miscegenation, and Its Discontents -- Chapter 5 Gilberto Freyre and the UNESCO Research Project on Race Relations in Brazil -- Chapter 6 “An Immense Mosaic” Race Mixing and the Creation of the Genetic Nation in 1960s Brazil -- PART III The Colonial Sciences of Race -- Chapter 7 The Racial Science of Patriotic Primitives: António Mendes Correia in Portuguese Timor -- Chapter 8 Reassessing Portuguese Exceptionalism: Racial Concepts and Colonial Policies toward the “Bushmen” in Southern Angola, 1880s–1970s -- Chapter 9 “Anthrobiology,” Racial Miscegenation, and Body Normality: Comparing Biotypological Studies in Brazil and Portugal, 1930–1940 -- PART IV Portugueseness in the Tropics -- Chapter 10 Luso-tropicalism Debunked, Again: Race, Racism, and Racialism in Three Portuguese-Speaking Societies -- Chapter 11 Being Goan (Modern) in Zanzibar: Mobility, Relationality, and the Stitching of Race -- Afterword I Mixing the Global Color Palette -- Afterword II Luso-tropicalism and Mixture in the Latin American Context -- Index