In "Uneven Encounters," Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of
popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years
between the World Wars, and demonstrates how that exchange affected
ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans
interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the
Brazilian "maxixe," to Rio musicians embracing the "foreign"
qualities of jazz, Seigel traces a lively, cultural back and forth.
Along the way, she shows how race and nation for both elites and
non-elites are constructed together, and driven by global cultural
and intellectual currents as well as local, regional, and national
ones.
Seigel explores the circulation of images of Brazilian coffee
and of maxixe in the United States during the period just after the
imperial expansions of the early twentieth century. Exoticist
interpretations structured North Americans' paradoxical sense of
themselves as productive "consumer citizens." Some people, however,
could not simply assume the privileges of citizenship. In their
struggles against racism, Afro-descended citizens living in Rio de
Janeiro, Sao Paulo, New York, and Chicago encountered images and
notions of each other, and found them useful. Seigel introduces
readers to cosmopolitan Afro-Brazilians and African Americans who
rarely traveled far from home but who nonetheless absorbed ideas
from abroad. She suggests that studies comparing U.S. and Brazilian
racial identities as two distinct constructions are misconceived.
Racial formation transcends national borders; attempts to
understand it must do the same.
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