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The Spectacle of the Races: Scientists, Institutions, and the Race Question in Brazil, 1870-1930
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by Lilia Moritz Schwarcz and Lilia Guyer
Sales Rank: 233806
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Cover Type: Hard Cover with 224 pages
Published by: Hill and Wang September 8, 1999
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0809087898
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0809087891
Book Dimensions:
8.6 x 5.8 x 1.4 inches
Weighs: 1.2 pounds
From Library Journal
The important issues of race and miscegenation in Brazil have been of interest to scholars for many years. Schwarcz (anthropology, Univ. of Sao Paulo) here looks at turn-of-the-century Brazilian scientific views on race. After discussing the prevalent 19th-century European ideas of human evolution that condemned miscegenation, Schwarcz looks at the reaction of Brazilian scientists to those ideas. She suggests that though they accepted the basics of the racist theories of the day, they discarded those ideas that condemned the racial mixture so prevalent in Brazil. Schwarcz's revisionist work rejects the accepted view that 19th-century Brazilian scientists merely borrowed European theories. She suggests that instead they adapted foreign ideas, keeping those theories that appeared to have application in Brazil and rejecting those that were problematic. Of value for libraries with Latin American and multicultural collections.AMark L. Grover, Brigham Young Univ. Lib., Provo, UT
Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Review
"Schwarcz’s book creatively looks at the prominent role that the idea of race has played in the development of Brazil’s scientific and historical institutions. It introduces this fascinating history to a wider American readership, and it contributes enormously to the historiography of Brazilian thought and institutions. It will be of great interest to specialists and non-specialists alike."- Melissa Nobles, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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