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

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

Weinstein, Barbara

Hardcover

Series: Radical Perspectives

AnthropologyGeneral Gender StudiesSouth American History

ISBN10: 0822357623
ISBN13: 9780822357629
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Mar 4 2015
Pages: 472
Weight: 1.66
Height: 1.17 Width: 6.78 Depth: 9.09
Language: English
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.

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