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Undoing Brazil: Hybridity versus Multiculturalism

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Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic

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This chapter add resses the issue of the supposed specificity of the Portuguese speaking world by examining recent changes in the way parts of the Brazilian government, certain NGOs, and intellectuals, especially anthropologists, imagine Brazil. While the idea(l)s of a biologically and culturally hybrid nation consolidated during the twentieth century continue to hold sway, recent events suggest that a rival paradigm gains strength: that of Brazil as a multiethnic and multicultural society.

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. King’s College, London, UK

    Nancy Priscilla Naro (Reader in Brazilian History, Co-Director) (Reader in Brazilian History, Co-Director)

  2. Centre for the Study of Brazilian Culture and Society, King’s College, London, UK

    Nancy Priscilla Naro (Reader in Brazilian History, Co-Director), Roger Sansi-Roca (Lecturer, Co-Director) & David H. Treece (Camoens Professor, Co-Director) (Reader in Brazilian History, Co-Director),  (Lecturer, Co-Director) &  (Camoens Professor, Co-Director)

  3. Department of Anthropology, Goldsmith’s College, UK

    Roger Sansi-Roca (Lecturer, Co-Director) (Lecturer, Co-Director)

  4. Department of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, King’s College, London, UK

    David H. Treece (Camoens Professor, Co-Director) (Camoens Professor, Co-Director)

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Fry, P. (2007). Undoing Brazil: Hybridity versus Multiculturalism. In: Naro, N.P., Sansi-Roca, R., Treece, D.H. (eds) Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic. Studies of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230606982_12

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