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OverviewThis book offers a historical analysis of one of the most striking and dramatic transformations to take place in Brazil and the United States during the twentieth century—the redefinition of the concepts of nation and democracy in racial terms. The multilateral political debates that occurred between 1930 and 1945 pushed and pulled both states towards more racially inclusive political ideals and nationalisms. Both countries utilized cultural production to transmit these racial political messages. At times working collaboratively, Brazilian and U.S. officials deployed the concept of “racial democracy” as a national security strategy, one meant to suppress the existential threats perceived to be posed by World War II and by the political agendas of communists, fascists, and blacks. Consequently, official racial democracy was limited in its ability to address racial inequities in the United States and Brazil. Shifting the Meaning of Democracy helps to explain the historical roots of a contemporary phenomenon: the coexistence of widespread antiracist ideals with enduring racial inequality. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Jessica Lynn GrahamPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780520293762ISBN 10: 0520293762 Pages: 392 Publication Date: 24 September 2019 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgments A Note on Terminology Abbreviations and Acronyms Introduction 1. Communist Racial Democracy in the 1930s 2. Embattled Images of Racial Democracy: State Anticommunism in the 1930s 3. Presaging the War: Racial Democracy and Fascism in the 1930s 4. State Cultural Production, Black Cultural Demarginalization, and Racial Democracy in the 1930s 5. The Centrality of Race and Democracy in the US-Brazil Wartime Alliance 6. A Partnership in Cultural Production: The Brazil-US Racial Democracy Exchange 7. Wartime Racial Democracy at Home: Domestic Pressures and In-House Propaganda Conclusion Notes Bibliography IndexReviewsThis study's presentation of the issues of race and democracy in the United States and Brazil carefully places the issues, and how they were viewed in each country, in dramatic historical perspective. * Journal of Interdisciplinary History * This study's presentation of the issues of race and democracy in the United States and Brazil carefully places the issues, and how they were viewed in each country, in dramatic historical perspective. * Journal of Interdisciplinary History * In this comparative historical analysis of Brazil and the US, Graham provides an intriguing look at how debates on the meaning of democracy have intersected with fights for racial equality. . . . Recommended. * CHOICE * Author InformationJessica Lynn Graham is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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