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- Title
When Rio Was Black: Soul Music, National Culture, and the Politics of Racial Comparison in 1970s Brazil.
- Authors
Alberto, Paulina L.
- Abstract
The article discusses the history of U.S.-Brazil comparisons of racial politics. It traces the origins of the idea that Brazil was fundamentally different from the U.S. in terms of race relations and definitions of race itself. Many claimed that Brazil, in comparison with the U.S., had a graduated system of racial identification that included people of diverse racial and cultural backgrounds in a mestiço or mixed nation. According to the article, the favorable comparison with the U.S. came under attack from a group of intellectuals and activists in the 1950s and onward to the mid-1970s who sought to assert stronger support for Black African-Brazilian musical culture.
- Subjects
RIO de Janeiro (Brazil); UNITED States; BRAZIL; RACE relations; BLACK Brazilians; RACISM; CULTURAL identity; ETHNICITY; MESTIZOS; SOUL music; SOCIAL conditions in Brazil -- 1964-1985
- Publication
Hispanic American Historical Review, 2009, Vol 89, Issue 1, p3
- ISSN
0018-2168
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1215/00182168-2008-043