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Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States (American Encounters/Global Interactions) by Micol Seigel; Gilbert M. Joseph; Emily S. Rosenberg is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe, to Rio musicians embracing the "foreign" qualities of jazz, Seigel traces a lively, cultural back and forth. Along the way, she shows how race and nation for both elites and non-elites are constructed together, and driven by global cultural and intellectual currents as well as local, regional, and national ones. Seigel explores the circulation of images of Brazilian coffee and of maxixe in the United States during the period just after the imperial expansions of the early twentieth century. Exoticist interpretations structured North Americans' paradoxical sense of themselves as productive "consumer citizens." Some people, however, could not simply assume the privileges of citizenship. In their struggles against racism, Afro-descended citizens living in Rio de Janeiro, São Paulo, New York, and Chicago encountered images and notions of each other, and f

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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Micol Seigel; Gilbert M. Joseph; Emily S. Rosenberg
Publisher
Duke University Press Books
Published
2009
Language
EN
ISBN
9781283065313
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Science, History, Sociology

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