Diploma of whiteness : race and social policy in Brazil, 1917-1945 / Jerry Davila.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dávila, Jerry, 1970-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Critical pedagogy--Brazil--History--20th century.

Critical pedagogy.

Discrimination in education--Brazil--History--20th century.

Discrimination in education.

White people--Race identity--Brazil--History--20th century.

White people.

Education--Social aspects--Brazil--History--20th century.

Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Asserts that Brazilian mid-century educational reforms, designed to end rigid, race-based exclusions and to incorporate the poor, did so by stressing whiteness as the primary characteristic of modernity.

Contents:

1. Building the "Brazilian man"

2. Educating Brazil

3. What happened to Rio's teachers of color?

4. Elementary education

5. Escola nova no estado novo: the new school in the new state

6. Behaving white: Rio's secondary schools

Epilogue: the enduring Brazilian fascination with race.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-285) and index.

ISBN:

9786613064387

9781283064385

1283064383

9780822384441

0822384442

OCLC:

245538659