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Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945

Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945

Dávila, Jerry

Paperback

General EducationGeneral Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 0822330709
ISBN13: 9780822330707
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: Mar 19 2003
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.14
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.08 Depth: 9.14
Language: English
In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. Brazilian authorities, who had considered race a biological fact, began to view it as a cultural and environmental condition. Jerry Dávila explores the significance of this transition by looking at the history of the Rio de Janeiro school system between 1917 and 1945. He demonstrates how, in the period between the world wars, the dramatic proliferation of social policy initiatives in Brazil was subtly but powerfully shaped by beliefs that racially mixed and nonwhite Brazilians could be symbolically, if not physically, whitened through changes in culture, habits, and health.

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