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Racial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil (Latin America Otherwise)
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by Jonathan W. Warren and Jonathan W. Warren
Sales Rank: 302143
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Cover Type: Paperback with 363 pages
Published by: Duke University Press August 2001
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0822327414
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822327417
Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 6.1 x 1.1 inches
Weighs: 1.4 pounds
Product Review
“Warren’s innovative study . . . promises to stir further discussion on racial identity and inequality in Brazil and comparative indigenous mobilization in the Americas.
--Seth Garfield, H-Net Reviews
“Since the 1970s, there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous decent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indian. This is the first book-length study of racial information in Brazil that centers on ‘Indianness.’”
--Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
“Novel in its use of data and concepts, this book nicely bridges the anthropology of ethnicity, sociology of race, limits of liberation theology, and Brazilian history and culture. All levels and collections.”
--D. B. Heath, Choice
“Warren challenges scholars of race, ethnicity, and identity to ‘think outside the boxes’ of their traditional scholarly paradigms. . . . Warren breaks new ground. . . . [A]n eloquent and thoughtful analysis . . . . This work will be of interest to activists and scholars of identity, ethnicity, and race in Latin America and elsewhere. It is an eloquent book that has potential political as well as scholarly implications.”
--Laura R. Graham, Journal of Anthropological Research
“Jonathan W. Warren moves beyond an overly narrow, black and white conceptualization of Brazil’s racial politics by broadening the scope of scholarly attention to consider the contemporary struggles of Brazil’s self-identified Indians. . . . Racial Revolutions illuminates an understudied domain of contemporary Brazilian racial politics, making an important contribution to the literature on race in Brazil and to the more general comparative literature in this field.”
--Mara Loveman, Contemporary Sociology
"[I]ntriguing. . . ."
--Hal Langfur, The Americas
Warren details a nuanced process of an Indian resurgence and antiracism. This book is a must for those studying Brazilian racial issues. Furthermore, scholars of indigenous communities, social movements, and those interested in ethnogenesis and racial formation in general would find this book of interest."
--Stanley R. Bailey, American Journal of Sociology
"In Warren, scholars will have access to stirring testimonies of abuse, resistance, and identity formation."
--Todd A. Diacon, Ethnohistory
"Jonathan Warren has written a provocative, no-holds-barred appeal to incorporate Brazil's eastern Indians into scholarship about race and antiracist activism. . . . Racial Revolutions begins to fill a Brazilian void in the growing U.S.-produced anthropological literature about mixed-race peoples and their indigenous roots throughout Latin America. . . . [A] stimulating book, well suited for undergraduate teaching about race and ethnicity in Latin America."
--Jan Hoffman French, Hispanic American Historical Review
"[A] very informative, challenging, and stimulating book."
--Linda Rabben, American Indian Culture and Research Journal
"[P]rovocative. . . . [E]ngaging. . . . Racial Revolutions provides valuable insight into a sector of Brazilian society that is too often ignored in scholarship on racial politics."
--Tracy Devine Guzmán, Bulletin of Latin American Research
“Racial Revolutions offers valuable lessons about 20th century indigenous populations in the Americas.”
--Cathy Marie Ouellette, E.I.A.L
Book Description
Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. In Racial Revolutions—the first book-length study of racial formation in Brazil that centers on Indianness—Jonathan W. Warren draws on extensive fieldwork and numerous interviews to illuminate the discursive and material forces responsible for this resurgence in the population.
The growing number of pardos who claim Indian identity represents a radical shift in the direction of Brazilian racial formation. For centuries, the predominant trend had been for Indians to shed tribal identities in favor of non-Indian ones. Warren argues that many factors—including the reduction of state-sponsored anti-Indian violence, intervention from the Catholic church, and shifts in anthropological thinking about ethnicity—have prompted a reversal of racial aspirations and reimaginings of Indianness. Challenging the current emphasis on blackness in Brazilian antiracist scholarship and activism, Warren demonstrates that Indians in Brazil recognize and oppose racism far more than any other ethnic group.
Racial Revolutions fills a number of voids in Latin American scholarship on the politics of race, cultural geography, ethnography, social movements, nation building, and state violence.
Designated a John Hope Franklin Center book by the John Hope Franklin Seminar Group on Race, Religion, and Globalization.
Reader Reviews
Warren's RACIAL REVOLUTIONS is a welcome addition to the paradigm that questions traditional discussions of race, ethnicity, and culture in Brazil posited as a mere European vis-a-vis African framework. Warren skillfully traces the historical vicisitudes of organization by different indigenous groups to survive as distinct ethnic groups or "nations," the on-going disputes over ownership of natural and cultural resources on lands that clearly belong to indigenous communities, and the challenges of indigenous groups and individuals for access to justice. Within the paradigm shared by Warren, academicians should look more at the interplay and fusion of native and African cultures in the history of South America in the past 500 years.
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