| The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil Contributor(s): Weinstein, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0822357623 ISBN-13: 9780822357629 Publisher: Duke University Press OUR PRICE: $113.95 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: March 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - South America - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 305.800 |
| LCCN: 2014040373 |
| Series: Radical Perspectives |
| Physical Information: 1.17" H x 6.78" W x 9.09" (1.66 lbs) 472 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes-the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution and 1954's IV Centen rio, the quadricentennial of S o Paulo's founding-this book shows how both elites and popular sectors in S o Paulo embraced a regional identity that emphasized their European origins and aptitude for modernity and progress, attributes that became-and remain-associated with "whiteness." This racialized regionalism naturalized and reproduced regional inequalities, as S o Paulo became synonymous with prosperity while Brazil's Northeast, a region plagued by drought and poverty, came to represent backwardness and S o Paulo's racial "Other." This view of regional difference, Weinstein argues, led to development policies that exacerbated these inequalities and impeded democratization. |