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  • For Social Peace in Brazil

    Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964

    This book is the first major study of industrialists and social policy in Latin America. Barbara Weinstein examines the vast array of programs sponsored by a new generation of Brazilian industrialists who sought to impose on the nation their vision of a rational, hierarchical, and efficient society. She explores in detail two national agencies founded in the 1940s (SENAI and SESI) that placed ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920

    The first complete account of the rise and fall of the rubber economy in Brazil provides a dramatic example of one of the "boom and bust" cycles traditionally associated with Brazilian economic history. The Amazon rubber trade was one of the most important export booms in the history of Latin America, dominating the economic life of the Amazon for 70 years until the successful cultivation of ... Read more

    $56.99 USD

  • The Color of Modernity

    São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil

    Series series Radical Perspectives
    In The Color of Modernity, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes—the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution and 1954’s IV Centenário, the quadricentennial of São Paulo’s founding—this ... Read more

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  • The Entangled Labor Histories of Brazil and the United States

    Workers in Brazil and the United States have followed parallel and entangled histories for many centuries. Recent experiences with progressive, popular presidents and authoritarian, populist presidents in the two most populous countries in the hemisphere have underscored important similarities. The contributors in this volume focus on the comparative and transnational histories of labor between ... Read more

    $93.99 USD

  • Nationalism in the New World

    Nationalism in the New World brings together work by scholars from the United States, Canada, Latin America, and Europe to discuss the common problem of how the nations of the Americas grappled with the basic questions of nationalism: Who are we? How do we imagine ourselves as a nation? Debates over the origins and meanings of nationalism have emerged at the forefront of the humanities and social ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • A Black Jurist in a Slave Society

    Antonio Pereira Rebouças and the Trials of Brazilian Citizenship

    Translated by Kristin M. McGuire ...
    Series series Latin America in Translation/en Traducción/em Tradução
    Now in English for the first time, Keila Grinberg’s compelling study of the nineteenth-century jurist Antonio Pereira Rebouças (1798–1880) traces the life of an Afro-Brazilian intellectual who rose from a humble background to play a key — and conflicted — role as Brazilians struggled to define citizenship and understand racial politics. One of the most prominent specialists in civil law of his ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • The Making of the Middle Class

    Toward a Transnational History

    Series series Radical perspectives : a radical history review book series
    In this important and timely collection of essays, historians reflect on the middle class: what it is, why its struggles figure so prominently in discussions of the current economic crisis, and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, modernity. The contributors focus on specific middle-class formations around the world—in Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and the Americas—since the mid ... Read more

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  • Blacks of the Land

    Indian Slavery, Settler Society, and the Portuguese Colonial Enterprise in South America

    Series Book 112 - Cambridge Latin American Studies
    Originally published in Portuguese in 1994 as Negros da Terra, this field-defining work by the late historian John M. Monteiro has been translated into English by Professors Barbara Weinstein and James Woodard. Monteiro's work established ethnohistory as a field in colonial Brazilian studies and made indigenous history a vital part of how scholars understand Brazil's colonial past. Drawing on over ... Read more

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    The Multilayered Legacy of Africans in Latin America and the Caribbean

    Edited by Darién J. Davis ...
    Series series Jaguar Books on Latin America
    Beyond Slavery traces the enduring impact and legacy of the African diaspora in Latin America and the Caribbean in the modern era. In a rich set of essays, the volume explores the multiple ways that Africans have affected political, economic, and cultural life throughout the region. Focusing on areas traditionally associated with Afro-Latin American culture such as Brazil and the Caribbean basin, ... Read more

    $46.99 USD

  • Cuba's Racial Crucible

    The Sexual Economy of Social Identities, 1750–2000

    Series series Blacks in the Diaspora
    This prize-winning study examines the historical interplay of racial identity, nationality, and family formation in Cuba from the 18th century to today.Since the 19th century, there have been two opposing perspectives on Cuban racial identity: one that frames Cubans as white, and one that sees them as racially mixed based on acceptance of African descent. For the past two centuries, these ... Read more

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  • Café con leche

    Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela

    For over a hundred years, Venezuelans have referred to themselves as a café con leche (coffee with milk) people. This colorful expression well describes the racial composition of Venezuelan society, in which European, African, and Indian peoples have intermingled to produce a population in which almost everyone is of mixed blood. It also expresses a popular belief that within their blended society ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Terms of Inclusion

    Black Intellectuals in Twentieth-Century Brazil

    In this history of black thought and racial activism in twentieth-century Brazil, Paulina Alberto demonstrates that black intellectuals, and not just elite white Brazilians, shaped discourses about race relations and the cultural and political terms of inclusion in their modern nation.Drawing on a wide range of sources, including the prolific black press of the era, and focusing on the influential ... Read more

    $28.49 USD