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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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UNESCO's Tensions Project (1947–1957) on India and Israel: Peace research in an era of decolonization

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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Neither Natives nor Nationals in Brazil: The ‘Indianisation’ of Bolivian Migrants in the City of São Paulo

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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Urban Reforms, Cultural Goods and the Valongo Wharf Circle: Understanding Intervention in Rio de Janeiro's Port Area

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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Violent masculinities

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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Gilberto Freyre e a singularidade cultural brasileira

Tempo Social, 2000
O texto procura enfatizar o conteúdo macrossociológico da obra dos anos trinta de Gilberto Freyre. Ao invés dos temas classicamente vinculados à obra de Gilberto Freyre, como a mestiçagem e a história da vida privada, o ponto principal da argumentação é ...
Jessé Souza
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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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HISTÓRIA, EDUCAÇÃO E PRÁTICAS CULTURAIS DA INFÂNCIA NA OBRA DE GILBERTO FREYRE

Linguagens, Educação e Sociedade, 2014
Este artigo surgiu da leitura detalhada das obras de Gilberto Freyre Casa-Grande & Senzala e Vida Social no Brasil nos Meados do Século XIX, na qual percebemos que a criança se apresentava como protagonista da narrativa.
LAURA MARIA SILVA ARAÚJO ALVES, JACQUELINE TATIANA DA SILVA GUIMARÃES   +1 more
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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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