The color of modernity : Sao Paulo and the making of race and nation in Brazil / Barbara Weinstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinstein, Barbara.

Series:

Radical perspectives.

Radical perspectives: a radical history review book series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Racism--Brazil--São Paulo (State).

Racism.

São Paulo (Brazil : State)--History--20th century.

São Paulo (Brazil : State).

São Paulo (Brazil : State)--History--Revolution, 1932.

São Paulo (Brazil : State)--Race relations--History.

Brazil--History--20th century.

Brazil.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (473 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham ; London : Duke University Press, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 Centenário, the quadricentennial of São Paulo's founding-this book shows how both elites and popular sectors in São Paulo embraced a regional identity that emphasized their European origins and aptitude for modernity and progress, attributes that became-and rem

Contents:

Paulista modern

The war of Sao Paulo

Constituting Paulista identity

The middle class in arms? Fighting for Sao Paulo

Marianne into battle. The mulher paulista and the Revolution of 1932

Provincializing Sao Paulo: the "other" regions strike back

Commemorating Sao Paulo

Sao Paulo triumphant

Exhibiting exceptionalism: history at the IV centenário

The white album: memory, identity, and the 1932 uprising.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780822357773

0822357771

9780822376156

0822376156

OCLC:

899276411