Shifting the Meaning of Democracy : Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil / Jessica Lynn Graham.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Graham, Jessica Lynn, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Race relations--Political aspects.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (392 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

This book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil and the United States during the twentieth century-the redefinition of the concepts of nation and democracy in racial terms. The multilateral political debates that occurred between 1930 and 1945 pushed and pulled both states towards more racially inclusive political ideals and nationalisms. Both countries utilized cultural production to transmit these racial political messages. At times working collaboratively, Brazilian and U.S. officials deployed the concept of "racial democracy" as a national security strategy, one meant to suppress the existential threats perceived to be posed by World War II and by the political agendas of communists, fascists, and blacks. Consequently, official racial democracy was limited in its ability to address racial inequities in the United States and Brazil. Shifting the Meaning of Democracy helps to explain the historical roots of a contemporary phenomenon: the coexistence of widespread antiracist ideals with enduring racial inequality.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

A Note on Terminology

Abbreviations and Acronyms

Introduction

Chapter 1. Communist Racial Democracy in the 1930s

Chapter 2. Embattled Images of Racial Democracy

Chapter 3. Presaging the War

Chapter 4. State Cultural Production, Black Cultural Demarginalization, and Racial Democracy in the 1930s

Chapter 5. The Centrality of Race and Democracy in the US-Brazil Wartime Alliance

Chapter 6. A Partnership in Cultural Production

Chapter 7. Wartime Racial Democracy at Home

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520966932

0520966937

OCLC:

1060184665