Jerry Dávila

Diploma of Whiteness

Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"A superbly researched analysis of the application of the whitening ideal, with all its contradictions, in the Rio de Janeiro schools during the interwar years."--Thomas Skidmore, author of "Black into White: Race and Nationality in Brazilian Thought"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. März 2003
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 29mm
• Gewicht: 644g
• ISBN-13: 9780822330585
• ISBN-10: 082233058X
• Artikelnr.: 21310151

Autorenporträt

Jerry Dávila is Assistant Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Building the “Brazilian Man” 21
2. Educating Brazil 52
3. What Happened to Rio’s Teachers of Color? 90
4. Elementary Education 125
5. Escola Nova no Estado Novo: The New School in the New State 155
6. Behaving White: Rio’s Secondary Schools 192
Epilogue: The Enduring Brazilian Fascination with Race 233
List of Abbreviations 244
Notes 247
Bibliography 271
Index 287