J Davila
Biographic Data
| ID | 3449 |
|---|---|
| NAME | J Davila |
| GIVEN NAMES | J |
| FAMILY NAME | Davila |
| SIGNATURE | DAVILA J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gustavus Adolphus College |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5534-8317 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 31 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 30 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 31 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1978 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
A Miscarriage of Justice: Women's Reproductive Lives and the Law in Early Twentieth-Century Brazil
A Miscarriage of Justice is a fascinating study of the ways in which laws, institutions, medical professionals, and other public figures imprinted norms of gender, race, and class on women in manners that limited their effective citizenship and their well-being. The book innovates in how it maps complexities and nuances in the relationships between poor women, health workers, police, and laws.Focused on Brazil's federal capital of Rio de Janeiro,…
E lá voltei a me encontrar com a África: A carreira diplomática na trajetória intelectual de Alberto da Costa e Silva
Homenagem a Alberto Vasconcellos da Costa e Silva
Challenging Racism in Brazil. Legal Suits in the Context of the 1951 Anti-Discrimination Law
This article examines efforts to define the nature of racial discrimination in Brazil, within an environment shaped by perceptions of the meaning of racism in the United States and perceptions about the nature of race relations in the lusophone world. The article asks how did black Brazilians work to define discrimination, and what opportunities did they find to mount challenges? This study elucidates reactions to discrimination, looking for thes…
Ditadura, Redemocratização E Apartheid No Brasil
Este artigo examina o significado do apartheid na interpretação e contestação das relações raciais no Brasil no século XX, traçando uma evolução longe do projeto forjado por intelectuais e políticos de meados do século que criticaram o apartheid Sul-Africano a fim de promover uma auto-definição nacional positiva dos brasileiros. O artigo traça a apropriação da luta contra o apartheid pelo movimento dos direitos civis dos negros que emergiu no Bra…
Eugenia e educação no Brasil do século XX: Entrevista com Jerry Dávila
Brasilianista e especialista nas relações entre eugenia, raça e educação, o historiador e diretor do Lemann Institute, Jerry Dávila, compartilha nesta entrevista algumas de suas experiências como estudioso desses temas. Seu livro Diploma de brancura, que teve grande repercussão e circulação entre os pesquisadores brasileiros, examina as relações raciais e eugênicas na educação brasileira entre 1917 e 1945. O entrevistado destaca os desafios em to…
Brazilian Race Relations in the Shadow of Apartheid
This article examines the significance of apartheid in the interpretation and contestation of Brazilian race relations in the twentieth century, tracing an evolution away from a midcentury project by Brazilian intellectuals and politicians who criticized South African apartheid in order to promote a positive national self-definition. The article traces the appropriation of the antiapartheid struggle by Brazil's emerging black civil rights movemen…
Negotiating Empire: The Cultural Politics of Schools in Puerto Rico, 1898-1952
In 2012, Puerto Rico held the fourth plebiscite since 1967 on its status relative to the United States. Though the plebiscite resulted in the first majority vote for US statehood, it took place alongside an election in which the pro-statehood governor, Luis Fortuño, lost to the candidate of the party that favored continuing the current status as an unincorporated territory of the United States. A point of contention amid the plebiscite was a prop…
Entre dois mundos: Gilberto Freyre, a ONU e o Apartheid sul-africano
Este trabalho analiza o relatório preparado por Gilberto Freyre em 1954 para a Organização das Nações Unidas, que propunha soluções ao problema sul-africano do apartheid. O trabalho aborda este documento como marco de um contexto internacional em profunda mundança encabeçada pelos movimentos em prol da descolonização e pelos direitos civis. Essas mudanças tornam anacrônica a crescente aplicação por parte de Freyre de ideias sobre virtudes portugu…
Ethnicity, Latin American Area Studies, and Transnationalism
War in Angola, Crisis in Brazil
Epilogue
“The Lovers of the African Race”: Brazilian Diplomats in Nigeria
Gibson Barboza’s Trip: “Brazil [Re]discovers Africa”
Africa and the Independent Foreign Policy
Brazil and the Portuguese Revolution
Brazil in the Lusotropical World
The Special Representation in Angola, 1975
Miracle for Sale: Marketing Brazil in Nigeria
Latinité or Fraternité?: Senegal, Portugal, and the Brazilian Military Regime
Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950–1980
In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Trópico reveals the perceptions, particularly regarding race, of the diplomats and intellectuals who traveled to Africa on Brazil's behalf. Jerry Dávila analyz…
Since Black into White: Thomas Skidmore on Brazilian Race Relations
In the 40 years since he published Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964: An Experiment in Democracy , Thomas Skidmore has simultaneously been a leading U.S. scholar of Latin American history and a prominent public figure in Brazil. Balancing these roles, Skidmore has written and commented extensively on recent Brazilian political and economic history. But he is also the author of an influential intellectual history of racial thought in Brazil, Black int…
Diploma de brancura: Política social e racial no Brasil (1917-1945)
politica social e racial no Brasil (1917-1945). Trad. Claudia Sant’Ana Martins. Sao Paulo: Editora Unesp, 2006. 400p. Por que estudar as relacoes raciais brasileiras a partir da educacao? O que ocorreu com o negro no sistema educacional brasileiro nas primeiras decadas do seculo XX? De que maneira o fator racial determinou o sucesso ou o fracasso escolar das criancas e jovens de cor? As politicas publicas educacionais influenciaram ou foram influ…
O valor social da brancura no pensamento educacional da era Vargas
Este artigo sugere que o pensamento educacional que virou a base dos projectos de reforma durante a era Vargas foram fundamentadas no pensamento eugênico da época, que visava definir e curar a suposta degeneração de brasileiros pobres e de cor. Esse pensamento virou incentivo para a expansão escolar, ao mesmo tempo que dificultava a ascensão social do afrodescendente e das classes populares
Ethnicity and the Shifting Margins of Brazilian Identity
Dávila offers a remarkably rich investigation of ethnicity in Brazil as he reviews two new and two earlier studies of Arab, Japanese, Portuguese (and, in passing, Chinese and Jewish) identities in that country. The books are Jeffrey Lesser's A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960-1980 (Duke UP, 2007), Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil (Du…
Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945
Vargas era elites confronted the same basic question faced by other centralizing political regimes—how to shape Brazil beyond the affairs of Rio de Janeiro (and perhaps even beyond the provincial capitals). Daryle Williams shows how cultural policymakers of the Vargas era confronted the core challenges of political and administrative centralization by looking at the newly created Ministry of Education and Health’s initiatives in art, architecture…
Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950–1980
In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Trópico reveals the perceptions, particularly regarding race, of the diplomats and intellectuals who traveled to Africa on Brazil's behalf. Jerry Dávila analyz…
Challenging Racism in Brazil. Legal Suits in the Context of the 1951 Anti-Discrimination Law
This article examines efforts to define the nature of racial discrimination in Brazil, within an environment shaped by perceptions of the meaning of racism in the United States and perceptions about the nature of race relations in the lusophone world. The article asks how did black Brazilians work to define discrimination, and what opportunities did they find to mount challenges? This study elucidates reactions to discrimination, looking for thes…
Brazilian Race Relations in the Shadow of Apartheid
This article examines the significance of apartheid in the interpretation and contestation of Brazilian race relations in the twentieth century, tracing an evolution away from a midcentury project by Brazilian intellectuals and politicians who criticized South African apartheid in order to promote a positive national self-definition. The article traces the appropriation of the antiapartheid struggle by Brazil's emerging black civil rights movemen…
Since Black into White: Thomas Skidmore on Brazilian Race Relations
In the 40 years since he published Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964: An Experiment in Democracy , Thomas Skidmore has simultaneously been a leading U.S. scholar of Latin American history and a prominent public figure in Brazil. Balancing these roles, Skidmore has written and commented extensively on recent Brazilian political and economic history. But he is also the author of an influential intellectual history of racial thought in Brazil, Black int…
Distribución y clasificación de los anfibios del departamento de Arequipa
Pefaur J. E., Núñez A., López E., Dávila J. Distribución y clasificación de los anfibios del departamento de Arequipa. In: Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, tome 7, N°1-2, 1978. pp. 119-127
Distribución y clasificación de los reptiles del departamento de Arequipa
Pefaur J. E., Núñez A., López E., Dávila J. Distribución y clasificación de los reptiles del departamento de Arequipa. In: Bulletin de l'Institut Français d'Études Andines, tome 7, N°1-2, 1978. pp. 129-139
Politics and Education in Argentina, 1946-1962
Expanding Perspectives on Race in Brazil
Scholars of race relations in Brazil have turned a critical corner in advancing understanding of the ways in which racial discrimination has been both sustained and challenged. The seven recent publications to be discussed here present methodological and theoretical approaches that challenge two longstanding assumptions: that public institutions not explicitly discriminatory are racially neutral; and that the Afro-Brazilian polity has not partici…
A era do saneamento: As bases da política de saúde pública no Brasil
How do political power and jurisdiction over public policy shift between state and federal government in Latin America’s largest country? Gilberto Hochman’s A era do saneamento offers an intriguing analysis of the development of federal authority over health and hygiene in early-twentieth-century Brazil. This is not a history of health and hygiene programs; instead, Hochman explores the campaign to build federal jurisdiction over public health, a…
Under the Long Shadow of Getúlio Vargas: A Research Chronicle
The old U.S. National Archives building in Suitland, Maryland is, in some respects, as far from Brazil as one can get. Ironically, it was here, dredging information about Brazilian education in U.S. State Department records, that I found the pamphlet that took me on a surreal journey into the private world of Darcy Vargas and her husband Getúlio, Chefe da Nação (Chief of the Nation). The pamphlet, published in 1942 by the Darcy Vargas Foundation,…
Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945
Vargas era elites confronted the same basic question faced by other centralizing political regimes—how to shape Brazil beyond the affairs of Rio de Janeiro (and perhaps even beyond the provincial capitals). Daryle Williams shows how cultural policymakers of the Vargas era confronted the core challenges of political and administrative centralization by looking at the newly created Ministry of Education and Health’s initiatives in art, architecture…
O valor social da brancura no pensamento educacional da era Vargas
Este artigo sugere que o pensamento educacional que virou a base dos projectos de reforma durante a era Vargas foram fundamentadas no pensamento eugênico da época, que visava definir e curar a suposta degeneração de brasileiros pobres e de cor. Esse pensamento virou incentivo para a expansão escolar, ao mesmo tempo que dificultava a ascensão social do afrodescendente e das classes populares
Ethnicity and the Shifting Margins of Brazilian Identity
Dávila offers a remarkably rich investigation of ethnicity in Brazil as he reviews two new and two earlier studies of Arab, Japanese, Portuguese (and, in passing, Chinese and Jewish) identities in that country. The books are Jeffrey Lesser's A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960-1980 (Duke UP, 2007), Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil (Du…
Since Black into White: Thomas Skidmore on Brazilian Race Relations
In the 40 years since he published Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964: An Experiment in Democracy , Thomas Skidmore has simultaneously been a leading U.S. scholar of Latin American history and a prominent public figure in Brazil. Balancing these roles, Skidmore has written and commented extensively on recent Brazilian political and economic history. But he is also the author of an influential intellectual history of racial thought in Brazil, Black int…
Diploma de brancura: Política social e racial no Brasil (1917-1945)
politica social e racial no Brasil (1917-1945). Trad. Claudia Sant’Ana Martins. Sao Paulo: Editora Unesp, 2006. 400p. Por que estudar as relacoes raciais brasileiras a partir da educacao? O que ocorreu com o negro no sistema educacional brasileiro nas primeiras decadas do seculo XX? De que maneira o fator racial determinou o sucesso ou o fracasso escolar das criancas e jovens de cor? As politicas publicas educacionais influenciaram ou foram influ…
War in Angola, Crisis in Brazil
Epilogue
“The Lovers of the African Race”: Brazilian Diplomats in Nigeria
Gibson Barboza’s Trip: “Brazil [Re]discovers Africa”
Africa and the Independent Foreign Policy
Brazil and the Portuguese Revolution
Brazil in the Lusotropical World
The Special Representation in Angola, 1975
Miracle for Sale: Marketing Brazil in Nigeria
Latinité or Fraternité?: Senegal, Portugal, and the Brazilian Military Regime
Hotel Trópico: Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950–1980
In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Trópico reveals the perceptions, particularly regarding race, of the diplomats and intellectuals who traveled to Africa on Brazil's behalf. Jerry Dávila analyz…
Entre dois mundos: Gilberto Freyre, a ONU e o Apartheid sul-africano
Este trabalho analiza o relatório preparado por Gilberto Freyre em 1954 para a Organização das Nações Unidas, que propunha soluções ao problema sul-africano do apartheid. O trabalho aborda este documento como marco de um contexto internacional em profunda mundança encabeçada pelos movimentos em prol da descolonização e pelos direitos civis. Essas mudanças tornam anacrônica a crescente aplicação por parte de Freyre de ideias sobre virtudes portugu…
Ethnicity, Latin American Area Studies, and Transnationalism
Brazilian Race Relations in the Shadow of Apartheid
This article examines the significance of apartheid in the interpretation and contestation of Brazilian race relations in the twentieth century, tracing an evolution away from a midcentury project by Brazilian intellectuals and politicians who criticized South African apartheid in order to promote a positive national self-definition. The article traces the appropriation of the antiapartheid struggle by Brazil's emerging black civil rights movemen…
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