The Integration of the White into the Community of Color, or How the Europeans Became Brazilian in the Twentieth Century

Datos Bibliográficos

ID8048397
AutoresL F Schwartzman (0000-0002-4719-9171, University of Toronto, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Volumen8
Número2
Fecha de publicación2018-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaTRANSMODERNITY Journal of Peripheral Cultural Production of the Luso-Hispanic World (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2154-1361 • E-ISSN: 2154-1353
EditorialCalifornia Digital Library (CDL) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5070/t482041113
OpenAlexW2893784845
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas1
Referencias citadas23

Studies of immigrant integration in Europe and North America generally assume that immigrants are less white and considered less “modern” than the nationals of the countries where they arrive. In this essay, my purpose is to examine what happens when we apply the idea of “immigrant integration” to European immigrants who arrived in Brazil at the end of the nineteenth century and the early twentieth century. These immigrants and their descendants have faced a contradiction between integrating into a national “imagined community,” constructed as “mixed-race,” and participating in local, national and global projects of (white) “modernity.” The paper explores how this contradiction was historically constructed in Brazil, how some Brazilians of European descent resolved it, and how we can think of the relationship between race, modernity, nationhood and immigrant integration from a more global perspective

Contradiction · White (mutation · Diaspora, migration, transnational identity · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Race, History, and American Society