Title Becoming Brazilians : race and national identity in twentieth-century Brazil / Marshall C. Eakin, Vanderbilt University

Published Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2017

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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 327 pages) Series New approaches to the Americas New approaches to the Americas. Contents Cover -- Half-title page -- Series page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Epigraph -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Creating a People and a Nation -- Gilberto Freyre and the Myth of Mestiçagem -- Gilberto Freyre and Casa-grande e senzala -- Constructing Myths, Rituals, and Symbols -- Key Themes -- Modernism -- Decline of the Freyrean Vision -- An Overview of the Book -- 1 From the "Spectacle of Races" to "Luso-Tropical Civilization" -- Constructing State and Nation -- Race and National Identity -- Modernism and Modernity -- Gilberto Freyre and the Creation of the Myth of Mestiçagem -- 2 Communicating and Understanding Mestiçagem: Radio, Samba, and Carnaval -- The State, Media, and Popular Culture -- Radio and the Creation of Samba -- Samba, Carnaval, and Getúlio Vargas -- Carnaval, Gender, the Malandro, and the Mulata -- The Malandro -- 3 Visualizing Mestiçagem: Literature, Film, and the Mulata -- A New Visual Culture and the Freyrean Mulata -- Carmen Miranda: An Iconic Cinematic Mulata? -- Carnaval and Cinema -- Mestiço Nationalism, Cinema Novo, and Bossa Nova -- Creating the Iconic Mulata: Jorge Amado and Sonia Braga -- 4 "Globo-lizing" Brazil: Televising Identity -- The Television Revolution and the Rise of the Globo Empire -- Modernity, Identity, and the Jornal Nacional -- Telenovelas and National Identity -- Broadcasting Carnaval and Futebol -- 5 The Beautiful Game: Performing the Freyrean Vision -- Creating the Myth of Futebol-Mulato -- From English Sport to Jogo do Povo -- Futebol-mestiço, Futebol-mulato, Futebol-arte -- Identity and the End of Futebol-arte? -- Gilberto Freyre, Mário Filho, Mestiçagem, and Citizenship -- 6 The Sounds of Cultural Citizenship -- Cultural Citizenship and Cultural Nationalism -- Music, Region, Nation -- Música Popular Brasileira and Cultural Nationalism Popular Music, Nationalism, Citizenship -- 7 Culture, Identity, and Citizenship -- Civic and Cultural Nationalisms -- Citizenships -- The Diretas Já Campaign -- Impeachment, Citizenship, and Nationalism -- Challenges to the Freyrean Vision -- Epilogue: Nation and Identity in the Twentieth and the Twenty-First Centuries -- The Return of Gilberto Freyre -- Technology: Forging and Eroding Narratives -- Modernity, Post Modernity, and the Creation of Identities -- Back to Race and Identity -- Nation, Regions, Nationalism, and National Identity -- Brazilian Exceptionalism? -- Bibliography -- Index Summary This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation among a small group of intellectuals to become the dominant feature of Brazilian national identity, demonstrating how diverse Brazilians embraced mestiçagem, via popular music, film and television, literature, soccer, and protest movements. The Freyrean vision of the unity of Brazilians built on mestiçagem begins a gradual decline in the 1980s with the emergence of an identity politics stressing racial differences and multiculturalism. The book combines intellectual history, sociological and anthropological field work, political science, and cultural studies for a wide-ranging analysis of how Brazilians - across social classes - became Brazilians Notes Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017) Subject Freyre, Gilberto, 1900-1987 -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Freyre, Gilberto, 1900-1987 fast Subject National characteristics, Brazilian. Racially mixed people -- Brazil. Black people -- Race identity -- Brazil Multiculturalism -- Brazil Black people -- Race identity Civilization Intellectual life Multiculturalism National characteristics, Brazilian Race relations Racially mixed people SUBJECT Brazil -- Race relations Brazil -- Civilization -- 20th century Brazil -- Intellectual life -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85016581 Subject Brazil Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9781316800058 1316800059 1107175763 9781107175761 1316626008 9781316626009

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