Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents

The Making and Unmaking of Racial Exceptionalism

Bibliographic Data

ID8046932
EditorsWarwick Anderson (0000-0002-5545-9244), Ricardo Roque (0000-0002-7507-2506), Ricardo Ventura Santos (0000-0001-5071-443X)
Year2022
Pages346
Publication date2022-09-14
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueLuso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherBerghahn Books (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1515/9781789201147
OpenAlexW4297199926
Open LibraryOL53255227M
ISBN9781789201147
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited10

Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre’s Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speaking world. Encompassing Brazil as well as Portuguese-speaking societies in Africa, Asia, and even Portugal itself, it places an interdisciplinary group of scholars in conversation to challenge the conventional understanding of twentieth-century racialization, proffering new insights into such controversial topics as human plasticity, racial amalgamation, and the tropes and proxies of whiteness

Art · Colonialism · Conversation · Eurocentrism · Exceptionalism · Humanities · Linguistics · Political science · Portuguese · Racialization · Sociology · Anthropology · Caribbean history, culture, and politics · Colonialism, slavery, and trade · Gender Studies · History · History of Medicine and Tropical Health · Law · Philosophy · Race, Identity, and Education in Brazil · Brazil · Colonies · Criticism and interpretation · Political and social views · Portugal · race relations

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