Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents - The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Berghahn Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2019
Editors:	Warwick Anderson • Ricardo Roque • Ricardo Ventura Santos
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 24mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	346
ISBN-13:	978-1-78920-113-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Politics & government > Political ideologies > Imperialism Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Multicultural studies > General
LSN:	1-78920-113-6
Barcode:	9781789201130

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