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Author Almeida, Miguel Vale de

Title An earth-colored sea : 'race', culture, and the politics of identity in the post-colonial Portuguese-speaking world / Miguel Vale de Almeida
Published New York : Berghahn Books, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 138 pages)
Series New Directions in Anthropology ; v. 22
New directions in anthropology
Contents Potogee: Being Portuguese in Trinidad -- Powers, Products, and Passions: The Black Movement in a Town of Bahia, Brazil -- Tristes Luso-Tropiques: The Roots and Ramifications of Luso-Tropicalist Discourses -- "Longing for Oneself": Hybridism and Miscegenation in Colonial and Postcolonial Portugal -- Epilogue of Empire: East Timor and the Portuguese Postcolonial Catharsis -- Pitfalls and Perspectives in Anthropology, Postcolonialism, and the Portuguese-Speaking World -- Epilogue: A Sailor's Tale
Summary "Although the post-colonial situation has attracted considerable interest over recent years, one important colonial power - Portugal - has not been given any attention. This book is the first to explore notions of ethnicity, "race", culture, and nation in the context of the debate on colonialism and postcolonialism. The structure of the book reflects a trajectory of research, starting with a case study in Trinidad, followed by another one in Brazil, and ending with yet another one in Portugal. The three ethnographic studies are intertwined with essays of a more theoretical nature. The non-monographic, composite - or hybrid - nature of this work may be in itself an indication of the need for transnational and historically grounded research when dealing with issues of representations of identity that were constructed during colonial times and that are today reconfigured in the ideological struggles over cultural meanings."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-131) and index
Notes Translated from the Portuguese
Subject Portuguese -- Foreign countries -- History
Ethnicity -- Portuguese-speaking countries
Black people -- Race identity -- Brazil
Portuguese -- Trinidad and Tobago -- Ethnic identity
Cultural pluralism.
Race awareness.
Group identity -- Timor-Leste
Group identity -- Portugal
Cultural Diversity
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Black people -- Race identity.
Cultural pluralism.
Ethnicity.
Group identity.
Portuguese -- Ethnic identity.
Race awareness.
Race relations.
Ethnische Beziehungen
Kulturelle Identität
Politische Identität
Politische Identität.
Kulturelle Identität.
Rassenbeziehung.
SUBJECT Portuguese-speaking countries -- Race relations
Subject Brazil.
Portugal.
Portuguese-speaking countries.
Timor-Leste.
Trinidad and Tobago.
Portugiesisches Sprachgebiet
Portugiesisches Sprachgebiet.
Genre/Form History.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1782388540
9781782388548
Other Titles Mar. da cor da terra. English