Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-speaking World
Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-speaking World How did racism evolve in different parts of the Portuguese-speaking world? What was the reality of inter-ethnic mixture in different…
Specifikacia Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-speaking World
Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-speaking World
How did racism evolve in different parts of the Portuguese-speaking world? What was the reality of inter-ethnic mixture in different continents? How should the impact on ethnic perceptions of colonial societies based on slavery or the slave trade be evaluated?
And how should we assess the impact of recent trends of emigration and immigration? How has the prejudice of white supremacy been confronted in Brazil and Portugal? These are some of the major questions that have structured this book.
It both contextualises and challenges the visions of Gilberto Freyre and Charles Boxer, which crystallised from the 1930s to the 1960s, but which still frame the public history of this topic. It studies crucial issues, including recent affirmative action in Brazil or Afro-Brazilian literature, blackness in Brazil compared with Colombia under the dynamics of identity, recent racist trends in Portugal