Drayton, Richard (2011) Gilberto Freyre and the Twentieth Century rethinking of race in Latin America. Portuguese Studies 27 (1), pp. 43-47. ISSN 0267-5315.
Abstract
This article examines the intellectual origins and meaning of Gilberto Freyre's Casa-grande. It argues that Freyre's attack on a racial hierarchy of cultural value, and on ideas of racial purity, may be understood from four perspectives: first, as part of a long tradition of pan-American response to the Old World's contempt for the New; second, as a claim for his region, the Northeast of Brazil, the most Africanised part of his country, of a central role in its nation's civilization; third, as part of a broader Latin American renegotiation of the place of the indigenous and African culture in the decades after the First World War; and, lastly, as a classic modernist attempt to frame a view of universal humanity.
Metadata
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keyword(s) / Subject(s): | Race, dispute of the New World, indigenismo, Manuel Gamio, Jose Vascon-celos, Jose Carlos Mariategui, Fernando Ortiz, Raça, disputa sobre o Novo Mundo, indigenimos, Manuel Gamio, Jose Vasconcelos, Jose Carlos Mariategui, Fernando Ortiz |
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences > School of Historical Studies |
| Depositing User: | Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 23 Jun 2011 13:48 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 16:55 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/3618 |
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