Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore's intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in paperback, this edition has been updated to include a new preface and bibliography that surveys recent scholarship in the field. Black into White is a broad-ranging study of what the leading Brazilian intellectuals thought and propounded about race relations between 1870 and 1930. In an effort to reconcile social realities with the doctrines of scientific racism, the Brazilian ideal of "whitening"—the theory that the Brazilian population was becoming whiter as race mixing continued—was used to justify the recruiting of European immigrants and to falsely claim that Brazil had harmoniously combined a multiracial society of Europeans, Africans, and indigenous peoples.
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"A splendid book... It is the first comprehensive analysis of Brazilian elite thought about race and a major contribution to the study of Brazilian intellectual history.O --Leo Spitzer, American Historical Review OBlack into White should be on the bookshelves of not only Brazilianists but all those who are interested in studying racial ideologies.O --Emilia Viotta da Costa, Hispanic American Historical Review
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Thomas E. Skidmore is Carlos Manuel de Céspedes Professor of History and Director, Center for Latin American Studies, at Brown University.
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In 1865 Brazil stood out in the Americas as a political anomaly-an Empire with a hereditary monarchy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
whitening thesis, whitening ideal, mulatto degeneracy, polygenist hypothesis, meu tempo, pensamento brasileiro, whitening ideology, literatura brasileira, ethnic evolution, nacional brasileiro, whitening process, racial future, ethnic future, racist thought, racist theory, differential fertility, ethnic integration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Branco, Joaquim Nabuco, Latin American, World War, Minas Gerais, North American, Euclides da Cunha, Rio Grande, Coelho Neto, Nina Rodrigues, Oliveira Lima, Oliveira Vianna, Silvio Romero, Gilberto Freyre, Mato Grosso, Batista de Lacerda, Brazilian Academy of Letters, Museu Nacional, Rodrigues Alves, Rui Barbosa, Monteiro Lobato, New World New!
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In 1865 Brazil stood out in the Americas as a political anomaly-an Empire with a hereditary monarchy. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
whitening thesis, whitening ideal, mulatto degeneracy, polygenist hypothesis, meu tempo, pensamento brasileiro, whitening ideology, literatura brasileira, ethnic evolution, nacional brasileiro, whitening process, racial future, ethnic future, racist thought, racist theory, differential fertility, ethnic integration Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, Sao Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Rio Branco, Joaquim Nabuco, Latin American, World War, Minas Gerais, North American, Euclides da Cunha, Rio Grande, Coelho Neto, Nina Rodrigues, Oliveira Lima, Oliveira Vianna, Silvio Romero, Gilberto Freyre, Mato Grosso, Batista de Lacerda, Brazilian Academy of Letters, Museu Nacional, Rodrigues Alves, Rui Barbosa, Monteiro Lobato, New World New!
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- Rebellion in the Backlands (Os Sertoes ) by Euclides da Cunha on 4 pages
- The Negro in Brazilian Society by Florestan Fernandes on 4 pages
- Outcasts from Evolution: Scientific Attitudes of Racial Inferiority, 1859 - 1900 by John S. Haller Jr. in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Journey In Brazil (The Works Of Louis Agassiz) by Louis Agassiz on page 50, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Race and Class in Rural Brazil by Charles Wagley in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Race, Place, and Medicine: The Idea of the Tropics in Nineteenth-Century Brazil by Julyan G. Peard on 5 pages
- Race and Nation in Modern Latin America by Nancy P. Appelbaum on 4 pages
- Freedoms Given, Freedoms Won: Afro-Brazilians in Post-Abolition SÏ€o Paolo and Salvador by Kim D. Butler in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil by Michael Hanchard on page 57, page 97, and page 177
- Early Globalization and the Economic Development of the United States and Brazil: by John DeWitt on page 126, page 151, and Back Matter
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