Imigração e teorias antropólogicas no Brasil (1910-1920)
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2000-12-01
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Luca, Tania Regina de [UNESP]
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Brazil takes pride in its alleged lack of racial discrimination. These idealized racial relations are a construction of enlightened elites. This article analyzes one of the main cultural publications in the country in order to establish how European anthropological theories were interpreted by Brazilian intelectuals. In the reappraisal of the country proposed in the journal, the ethnic question was intensely discussed. A whitening of the population was generally perceived as a sort of magic solution to the contradictions in a multiracial, heterogeneous and rigidly hierarchic society. This natural process might be accelerated by an inflow of European immigration. The many expectations and tensions surrounding immigration were expressed in the construction of categories of desirable and undesirable immigrants. Thereof an ideal white country emerged, far away from the myth of racial democracy, which has not materialized in Brazilian society today.
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ethnicity, European immigrant, historical perspective, racial identity, racism, Brazil
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Estudios Migratorios Latinamericanos, v. 15, n. 46, p. 587-602, 2000.