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2010

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03 août 2010

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9780822393443

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English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

In the wake of African decolonization, Brazil attempted to forge connections with newly independent countries. In the early 1960s it launched an effort to establish diplomatic ties with Africa; in the 1970s it undertook trade campaigns to open African markets to Brazilian technology. Hotel Tropico reveals the perceptions, particularly regarding race, of the diplomats and intellectuals who traveled to Africa on Brazil's behalf. Jerry Davila analyzes how their actions were shaped by ideas of Brazil as an emerging world power, ready to expand its sphere of influence; of Africa as the natural place to assert that influence, given its historical slave-trade ties to Brazil; and of twentieth-century Brazil as a "racial democracy," a uniquely harmonious mix of races and cultures. While the experiences of Brazilian policymakers and diplomats in Africa reflected the logic of racial democracy, they also exposed ruptures in this interpretation of Brazilian identity. Did Brazil share a "lusotropical" identity with Portugal and its African colonies, so that it was bound to support Portuguese colonialism at the expense of Brazil's ties with African nations? Or was Brazil a country of "Africans of every color," compelled to support decolonization in its role as a natural leader in the South Atlantic? Drawing on interviews with retired Brazilian diplomats and intellectuals, Davila shows the Brazilian belief in racial democracy to be about not only race but also Portuguese ethnicity.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

03 août 2010

EAN13

9780822393443

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

hotel trópico

jerry dávila

Hotel Trópico brazil and the challenge

of african decolonization,

1950–1980

duke university press durham and london 2010

© 2010 Duke University Press All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America on acidfree paperb Designed by C. H. Westmoreland Typeset in Quadraat by Achorn International, Inc. Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data appear on the last printed page of this book.

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Contents

acknowledgmentsix

Introduction 1 Brazil in the Lusotropical World  2and the Independent Foreign Policy Africa 39 3 “The Lovers of the African Race:” Brazilian Diplomats in Nigeria 64 4in Angola, Crisis in Brazil War 9 5LatinitéorFraternité? Senegal, Portugal, and the Brazilian Military Regime 7 6 Gibson Barboza’s Trip: “Brazil [Re]discovers Africa” 4 7and the Portuguese Revolution Brazil 7 8Special Representation in Angola, 1975 The 9 9 Miracle for Sale: Marketing Brazil in Nigeria 22 Epilogue 244

notes 257 bibliography 293 index 37

Acknowledgments

this book exploresswift and often tumultuous change that the the Atlantic world underwent in the second half of the twentieth century, driven by the currents of decolonization, developmentalism, authoritari anism, and the cold war. The main focus is on the way a cohort of Brazil ians perceived these currents of change, and particularly on what their perceptions reveal about Brazilian racial thought. In writing this book it was possible to cover various places and themes only because of the sup port of many friends and colleagues in Brazil and the United States, who shared materials, asked questions, opened doors, and granted me time for research. And as a book that relies heavily on oral histories, it is also the fruit of the generosity of many diplomats, intellectuals, artists, activ ists, and their relatives, who gave interviews about their experiences relat ing to Brazil and Africa. My interest in Brazilian connections with Africa, and in Brazilian racial identity, developed in graduate school at Brown University through the encouragement of Thomas Skidmore and of Anani Dzidzienyo, whose interest in the African connection and the AfroBrazilian condition nour ished and guided this project from inception to publication. Anani Dzidzienyo, Jeffrey Lesser, John David Smith, Mark Wilson, and two anonymous readers from Duke University Press read and commented on the entire manuscript. I am grateful to Valerie Millholland, my editor at Duke University Press, as well as Miriam Angress, associate editor, who have been consistent and thoughtful advocates. Paulina Alberto, George

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