Diploma of Whiteness : Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945 /
Asserts that Brazilian mid-century educational reforms, designed to end rigid, race-based exclusions and to incorporate the poor, did so by stressing whiteness as the primary characteristic of modernity.
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2003.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Building the "Brazilian man"
- 2. Educating Brazil
- 3. What happened to Rio's teachers of color?
- 4. Elementary education
- 5. Escola nova no estado novo: the new school in the new state
- 6. Behaving white: Rio's secondary schools
- Epilogue: the enduring Brazilian fascination with race.