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MEDIEVALISMS AND MEDIEVAL TIMES: CONFRONTING CHRONOPOLITICS WITH MEDIEVAL TEXTURES OF TIME
History and Theory, Volume 62, Issue 4, Page 142-156, December 2023., 2023 ABSTRACT This review essay examines Nadia R. Altschul's discussion of medievalism in nineteenth‐ and twentieth‐century South America in Politics of Temporalization: Medievalism and Orientalism in Nineteenth‐Century South America. She explores a chronopolitics whereby the notion that late medieval Iberia lagged developmentally behind the rest of Europe ...
Hannah Skoda
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Diaspora boundaries and racial democracy: Nationalist discourses on Judaism and Zionism in Brazil
Nations and Nationalism, Volume 29, Issue 4, Page 1304-1320, October 2023., 2023 Abstract This article examines how Brazilian nationalist elites perceived Jews, Judaism and Zionism during the military dictatorship period (1964–1985). Although an explicit antisemitic discourse was socially unacceptable in Brazil, many nationalist officials and intellectuals who discussed Jewish and Zionist Brazilians among themselves during those ...
Jonathan Grossman
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Monuments to Mestizaje and the Commemoration of Racial Democracy in Puerto Rico
Visual Anthropology Review, Volume 39, Issue 2, Page 350-387, Fall 2023., 2023 Abstract In this paper, I argue that monuments to mestizaje (miscegenation) in Puerto Rico reaffirm the myth of a harmonious mixture between the White Spaniard, Black African, and Indigenous Taíno. This racial triad, originally conceived in the nineteenth century, was institutionalized in 1956 by the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture to legitimize the ...
Rafael V. Capó García
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Peace &Change, Volume 48, Issue 3, Page 183-204, July 2023., 2023 Abstract In the light of the Second World War, the devastation of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and decolonization in Asia, the newly established UN organization for education, science and culture (UNESCO) initiated a global research project in 1947. Its main task was to find out how tensions within and between societies can be explained and tackled to ...
Clemens Six
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Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 41, Issue 1, Page 53-68, January 2022., 2022 Bolivian migrants in Brazil are commonly categorised as ‘indians’ who are ‘enslaved’ in São Paulo's garment industry. Simultaneously, self‐identified indigenous peoples in Brazilian urban centres are constantly challenged as to the authenticity of their claims to indigeneity.
Aiko Ikemura Amaral
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Bulletin of Latin American Research, Volume 40, Issue 5, Page 696-711, November 2021., 2021 Between 2012 and 2016, the Valongo Wharf Circle employed capoeira to make sense of the complex and enduring legacies of the Valongo Wharf, namely, the impact and intersection of racial discrimination and cycles of redevelopment that have remade Rio and marked the history of the site.
Victoria Adams
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The racial division of nature: Making land in Recife
Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, Volume 46, Issue 2, Page 270-283, June 2021., 2021 In this paper I analyse the making and unmaking of amphibious urban modernity in Recife in the Northeast of Brazil between 1920 and 1950. I argue that the transformation of the city was predicated on an absorptive and eradicative notion of whiteness that necessitated the creation of dry, enclosed land.
Archie Davies
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American Ethnologist, Volume 48, Issue 1, Page 65-79, February 2021., 2021 ABSTRACT Historically, policing in Rio de Janeiro has been shaped by the equation of racialized violence and masculinity. Attempts to reform the police have paradoxically drawn on forms of male violence that are centered on the rational and professional use of force and on “softer” practices, such as dialogue and collaboration, symbolically coded as ...
TOMAS SALEM, ERIKA ROBB LARKINS
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Diálogos do senhor da Casa-grande com o menino de engenho
Estudos Sociedade e Agricultura, 2019 Resenha do livro Gilberto Freyre e José Lins do Rego: diálogos do senhor da casa-grande com o menino de engenho. Palavras-chave: Gilberto Freyre; José Lins do Rego. DANTAS, Cauby.
Raimundo Santos
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Jazigos e covas rasas: o livro que Gilberto Freyre não escreveu?
Oculum Ensaios, 2013 Este artigo trata do quarto volume da História da Sociedade Patriarcal no Brasil, de Gilberto Freyre, intitulado Jazigos e covas rasas. Existem pelo menos três hipóteses em torno da elaboração desse livro: a de que esse volume foi apenas planejado pelo ...
Solange de Aragão
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