Uneven Encounters
Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States
1st Edition
Published on 18. March 2009
408 pages
978-0-8223-9217-0 (ISBN)
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This chronicle of the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the interwar years shows how that exchange affected both countries ideas of race and nation.
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03/2009
Duke University Press
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Micol Seigel is Assistant Professor in the Department of African American and African Diaspora Studies and the Program in American Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington.
Content
Illustrations ix
Preface xi
Note on Language xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
1. Producing Consumption: Coffee and Consumer Citizenship 13
2. Maxixe's Travels: Cultural Exchange and Erasure 67
3. Playing Politics: Making the Meanings of Jazz in Rio de Janeiro 95
4. Nation Drag: Uses of the Exotic 136
5. Another "Global Vision": (Trans)Nationalism in the Sao Paulo Black Press 179
6. Black Mothers, Citizen Sons 206
Conclusion 235
Abbreviations 241
Notes 243
Discography 321
Bibliography 323
Index 367
Preface xi
Note on Language xvii
Acknowledgments xix
Introduction 1
1. Producing Consumption: Coffee and Consumer Citizenship 13
2. Maxixe's Travels: Cultural Exchange and Erasure 67
3. Playing Politics: Making the Meanings of Jazz in Rio de Janeiro 95
4. Nation Drag: Uses of the Exotic 136
5. Another "Global Vision": (Trans)Nationalism in the Sao Paulo Black Press 179
6. Black Mothers, Citizen Sons 206
Conclusion 235
Abbreviations 241
Notes 243
Discography 321
Bibliography 323
Index 367
