Stereotypes and National Identity

Experiencing the “Emotional Brazilian”

Datos Bibliográficos

ID19001072
AutoresClaudia Barcellos Rezende (0000-0003-0297-1540, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, autor de correspondencia)
Año2008
Volumen15
Número1
Páginas103-122
Fecha de publicación2008-01-22
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIdentities (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1070-289X • E-ISSN: 1547-3384
EditorialTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/10702890701801866
OpenAlexW1973273035
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas6
Referencias citadas28

In this article, I examine how stereotypes are deployed in the process of experiencing national identities. Specifically, I analyse how a group of Brazilian academics who have studied in Europe and the United States have dealt with stereotypical notions of Brazilians as “warm people” who establish friendship “easily.” Ideas about a “greater emotionality,” which were often seen as negative from a European colonial perspective, are embraced and re-signified by them as a positive feature of Brazilian national identity, particularly when compared to the supposed “closed nature” of some Europeans. I argue therefore that the presence of such stereotypes contributes to reinforce a subjective sense of Brazilianess and also reveals the negotiations of power relations in the process of elaborating Brazilian national identity

Aesthetics · Emotionality · Friendship · Identity negotiation · National Identities · National identity · Negotiation · Political science · Politics · Social science · Sociology · Gender Studies · International Relations in Latin America · Latin American social science · Law · Psychology · Social Psychology