Uneven Encounters : Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States

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dc.creatorSeigel, Micol
dc.date2009-03-18T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-22T14:16:55Z
dc.date.available2021-05-22T14:16:55Z
dc.descriptionIn Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe, to Rio musicians embracing the “foreign” qualities of jazz, Seigel traces a lively, cultural back and forth. Along the way, she shows how race and nation for both elites and non-elites are constructed together, and driven by global cultural and intellectual currents as well as local, regional, and national ones. Seigel explores the circulation of images of Brazilian coffee and of maxixe in the United States during the period just after the imperial expansions of the early twentieth century. Exoticist interpretations structured North Americans’ paradoxical sense of themselves as productive “consumer citizens.” Some people, however, could not simply assume the privileges of citizenship. In their struggles against racism, Afro-descended citizens living in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, New York, and Chicago encountered images and notions of each other, and found them useful. Seigel introduces readers to cosmopolitan Afro-Brazilians and African Americans who rarely traveled far from home but who nonetheless absorbed ideas from abroad. She suggests that studies comparing U.S. and Brazilian racial identities as two distinct constructions are misconceived. Racial formation transcends national borders; attempts to understand it must do the same.
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dc.identifierISBN:9781478090878
dc.identifierDOI:https://doi.org/10.1215/9780822392170
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12371/13006
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherDuke University Press
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode
dc.sourceMODID-5cbdebbaa5e:Duke University Press
dc.subjectHistory / United States / 20th Century
dc.subjectbisacsh:HIS036060
dc.subjectSocial Science / Ethnic Studies / American / African American & Black Studies
dc.subjectbisacsh:SOC001000
dc.subjectHistory / Latin America
dc.subjectbisacsh:HIS024000
dc.titleUneven Encounters : Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States
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