Jerry Dávila

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Brazil and the Challenge of African Decolonization, 1950-1980

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Produktbeschreibung

A study of perceptions of race and national identity in Brazil's conflicted effort to build relations with African nations in the second half of the twentieth century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2010
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780822348672
• ISBN-10: 0822348675
• Artikelnr.: 30362144

Autorenporträt

Jerry Dávila is Professor of History at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945, also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction 1
1. Brazil in the Lusotropical World 11
2. Africa and the Independent Foreign Policy 39
3. "The Lovers of the African Race": Brazilian Diplomats in Nigeria 64
4. War in Angola, Crisis in Brazil 91
5. Latinité or Fraternité? Senegal, Portugal and the Brazilian Military
Regime 117
6. Gibson Barboza's Trip: "Brazil (Re)discovers Africa" 141
7. Brazil and the Portuguese Revolution 170
8. Brazil's Special Representation in Angola, 1975 190
9. Miracle for Sale: Marketing Brazil in Nigeria 221
Epilogue 244
Notes 257
Bibliography 293
Index 307