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Date de parution

26 septembre 2001

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822381303

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of pardos (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. In Racial Revolutions-the first book-length study of racial formation in Brazil that centers on Indianness-Jonathan W. Warren draws on extensive fieldwork and numerous interviews to illuminate the discursive and material forces responsible for this resurgence in the population.The growing number of pardos who claim Indian identity represents a radical shift in the direction of Brazilian racial formation. For centuries, the predominant trend had been for Indians to shed tribal identities in favor of non-Indian ones. Warren argues that many factors-including the reduction of state-sponsored anti-Indian violence, intervention from the Catholic church, and shifts in anthropological thinking about ethnicity-have prompted a reversal of racial aspirations and reimaginings of Indianness. Challenging the current emphasis on blackness in Brazilian antiracist scholarship and activism, Warren demonstrates that Indians in Brazil recognize and oppose racism far more than any other ethnic group.Racial Revolutions fills a number of voids in Latin American scholarship on the politics of race, cultural geography, ethnography, social movements, nation building, and state violence.Designated a John Hope Franklin Center book by the John Hope Franklin Seminar Group on Race, Religion, and Globalization.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

26 septembre 2001

Nombre de lectures

EAN13

9780822381303

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

2 Mo

Racial Revolutions

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Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nations

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            -     ,                                  

Racial Revolutions

Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in Brazil

         .      

Duke University Press

Durham and London 

Printed in the United States on acid-free paper 

Typeset in Quadraat by Tseng Information Systems, Inc.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

appear on the last printed page of this book. Royalties

from this book will be donated to the Indians of Eastern

Brazil. Initial funds will support Projecto Arana.

About the Series

Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nationsis a critical series. It aims to explore the emergence and consequences of concepts used to deﬁne ‘‘Latin America’’ while at the same time exploring the broad inter-play of political, economic, and cultural practices that have shaped Latin American worlds. Latin America, at the crossroads of competing im-perial designs and local responses, has been construed as a geocultural and geopolitical entity since the nineteenth century.This series provides a starting point to redeﬁne Latin America as a conﬁguration of political, linguistic, cultural, and economic intersections that demand a continu-ous reappraisal of the role of the Americas in history, and of the ongoing process of globalization and the relocation of people and cultures that have characterized Latin America’s experience.Latin America Otherwise: Languages, Empires, Nationsis a forum that confronts established geocul-tural constructions, that rethinks area studies and disciplinary bound-aries, that assesses convictions of the academy and of public policy, and that, correspondingly, demands that the practices through which we produce knowledge and understanding about and from Latin America be subject to rigorous and critical scrutiny. InRacial Revolutions: Antiracism and Indian Resurgence in BrazilJonathan Warren analyzes the complexities of race in Brazil by contrasting the Maxakali Creation Story, the inauguration of Brasília in the s, and the ideology of modernization and development that deﬁned the ﬁrst twenty-ﬁve years of the Cold War. The Brazilian state found itself in a new world order and, like the rest of Latin America, challenged by in-digenous peoples. Through the emblematic scene of the Pataxó Indian Galdino Jesus dos Santos, who found himself lost in the city of Brasília on the eve of its thirty-seventh anniversary and ended up brutally murdered, Warren weaves socioeconomic conﬂicts with hegemonic social discourses, the

latter of which also justiﬁes exploitation of labor and discriminatory appropriation of land by claiming white entitlement to both. Warren’s narrative and argument clearly demonstrate that the built-in complicity between colonialism and racism can only be understood by examining each speciﬁc country in the context of modern and colonial world sys-tems. The racial conﬁguration of Brazil in the past ﬁfty years therefore cannot be understood within the conﬁnes of national history alone.

To France Winddance Twine,

&in memory of my grandfather,

Frederick A. Roberts (–)

Contents

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgments

List of Abbreviations

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Introduction: Maxakali Creation Story

. Posttraditional Indians

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. Methodological Reﬂections

. The State of Indian Exorcism

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. Racial Stocks and Brazilian Bonds

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. Prophetic Christianity, Indigenous Mobilization

. The Common Sense of Racial Formation

. Indian Judges

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. Contesting White Supremacy

Epilogue

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Appendix A: Questionnaire, –

Appendix B: Questionnaire, –

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Appendix C: Biographical Data of Indian Interviewees

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Appendix D: Biographical Data of Non-Indian Interviewees

Notes

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Glossary

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Bibliography

Index

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