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Record Nr.

UNINA9910500582803321

Autore

Seigel Micol <1968->

Titolo

Uneven encounters [[electronic resource] ] : making race and nation in Brazil and the United States / / Micol Seigel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Durham, : Duke University Press, 2009

ISBN

1-283-06531-2

9786613065315

0-8223-4440-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (410 p.)

Collana

American encounters/global interactions

Disciplina

305.800981

Soggetti

Racism - Brazil - History - 20th century

Nationalism - Brazil - History - 20th century

Racism - United States - History - 20th century

Nationalism - United States - History - 20th century

Brazil Race relations History 20th century

United States Race relations History 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Producing consumption: coffee and consumer citizenship -- Maxixe's travels: cultural exchange and erasure -- Playing politics: making the meanings of jazz in Rio de Janeiro -- Nation drag: uses of the exotic -- Another "global vision": (trans)nationalism in the Sao Paulo black press -- Black mothers, citizen sons.

Sommario/riassunto

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.