Becoming Brazilians(English, Hardcover, Eakin Marshall C.)

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Becoming Brazilians(English, Hardcover, Eakin Marshall C.) is written by Eakin Marshall C. and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1107175763 (ISBN 10) and 9781107175761 (ISBN 13).

This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mesticagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mesticagem moved from a conversation among a small group of intellectuals to become the dominant feature of Brazilian national identity, demonstrating how diverse Brazilians embraced mesticagem, via popular music, film and television, literature, soccer, and protest movements. The Freyrean vision of the unity of Brazilians built on mesticagem begins a gradual decline in the 1980s with the emergence of an identity politics stressing racial differences and multiculturalism. The book combines intellectual history, sociological and anthropological field work, political science, and cultural studies for a wide-ranging analysis of how Brazilians - across social classes - became Brazilians.