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dc.contributor.authorSeigel, Micol
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-01T05:31:32Z
dc.date.available2021-10-01T05:31:32Z
dc.date.issued2009
dc.identifier.urihttps://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/50690
dc.description.abstractIn Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe, to Rio musicians embracing the “foreign” qualities of jazz, Seigel traces a lively, cultural back and forth. Along the way, she shows how race and nation for both elites and non-elites are constructed together, and driven by global cultural and intellectual currents as well as local, regional, and national ones. Seigel explores the circulation of images of Brazilian coffee and of maxixe in the United States during the period just after the imperial expansions of the early twentieth century. Exoticist interpretations structured North Americans’ paradoxical sense of themselves as productive “consumer citizens.” Some people, however, could not simply assume the privileges of citizenship. In their struggles against racism, Afro-descended citizens living in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, New York, and Chicago encountered images and notions of each other, and found them useful. Seigel introduces readers to cosmopolitan Afro-Brazilians and African Americans who rarely traveled far from home but who nonetheless absorbed ideas from abroad. She suggests that studies comparing U.S. and Brazilian racial identities as two distinct constructions are misconceived. Racial formation transcends national borders; attempts to understand it must do the same.
dc.languageEnglish
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::N History and Archaeology::NH History::NHK History of the Americasen_US
dc.subject.classificationthema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSL Ethnic studiesen_US
dc.subject.otherHistory
dc.subject.otherUnited States
dc.subject.other20th Century
dc.subject.otherSocial Science
dc.subject.otherEthnic Studies
dc.subject.otherAmerican
dc.subject.otherAfrican American & Black Studies
dc.subject.otherHistory
dc.subject.otherLatin America
dc.titleUneven Encounters
dc.title.alternativeMaking Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States
dc.typebook
oapen.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1215/9780822392170
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oapen.relation.isFundedByb818ba9d-2dd9-4fd7-a364-7f305aef7ee9
oapen.relation.isbn9781478090878
oapen.collectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
oapen.imprintDuke University Press
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oapen.identifier.isbn9781478090878
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