The spectacle of the races: scientists, institutions, and the race question in Brazil, 1870-1930

"Lilia Moritz Schwarcz shows how Brazil's philosophers, politicians, and scientists gratefully accepted social Darwinist ideas about innate racial differences, yet feared the havoc such ideas would have wrought in Brazil. In the end, Brazil's intellectuals could not condemn the misceg...

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1. Verfasser: Schwarcz, Lilia Moritz (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York Hill and Wang 1999
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Zusammenfassung:"Lilia Moritz Schwarcz shows how Brazil's philosophers, politicians, and scientists gratefully accepted social Darwinist ideas about innate racial differences, yet feared the havoc such ideas would have wrought in Brazil. In the end, Brazil's intellectuals could not condemn the miscegenation which had so long been an essential feature of Brazilian society - and which lay at the very heart of the country's new national structures. Schwarcz illustrates how the work of these "men of science" was crucial to Brazil's modernization and to the development of its sense of national destiny."--BOOK JACKET.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references (p. [337]-349) and index
Among "men of science" -- Racial doctrines in the nineteenth century: a history of "differences and discrimination" -- Ethnographic museums in Brazil": "clams are clans, and mollusks are men as well" -- Historical and geographical institutes: "guardians of the official story" -- Schools of law, or the nation's chosen -- Schools of medicine, or how to heal an ailing nation -- Between the poison and the antidote: some final thoughts
Beschreibung:IX, 358 S. Ill., Kt. 22 cm

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