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This 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.
Since it was compiled in the early 20th Century, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion has attracted the interest of politicians and academicians, and generated extensive research. Exploring the tract’s successful dissemination and examining the impact of the Protocols across the world, this book attempts to understand its continuing popularity, one hundred years after its first appearance, in so many diverse societies and cultures.
Global Identitarianism is about the global spread of the new far-right ideology and social movement Identitarianism. Founded in France in 2003, Identitarianism has inspired a range of groups such as Generation Identity in Europe and the alt-right in America. It has been spread by a far-right constellation that includes white nationalist direct action groups, think tanks, ‘alternative media’ organizations, social media ‘celebrities’, and political candidates. This book explores the global reach of this contentious far-right social movement using examples from Europe, North America, Australia, and South America. It will be essential reading for scholars and activists alike with an interest in race relations, fascism, extremism, migration studies, and social movements.
Brazil, Land of the Past scrutinizes the ideological roots of the so-called New Right in Brazil. The book traces the continuity and resilience of a system of thought based on the idea of a God-given hierarchical order to be defended against any social contract and modernizing relativization. It explains in detail how today a diverse movement — which includes actors ranging from the authoritarian Bolsonaro wing to economic liberals to the military to both Catholic and evangelical religious conservatives – assumes unanimously the ideas of this tradition as underlying premises of their political action. Though not always explicitly, this drives the self-declared “liberal-conservative” but rather anti-modernist reaction which claims to liberate an imaginary authentic “Brazil” from an aberrant “State” – and in so doing intends to preserve inherited privilege in an extremely unequal society.
The Routledge Companion to Twentieth and Twenty-First Century Latin American Literary and Cultural Forms brings together a team of expert contributors in this critical and innovative volume. Highlighting key trends within the discipline, as well as cutting-edge viewpoints that revise and redefine traditional debates and approaches, readers will come away with an understanding of the complexity of twenty-first-century Latin American cultural production and with a renovated and eminently contemporary understanding of twentieth-century literature and culture. This invaluable resource will be of interest to advanced students and academics in the fields of Latin American literature, cultural studies, and comparative literature.
This book presents two systems of censorship and literary promotion, revealing how literature can be molded to support authoritarian regimes. The issue is complex in that at a descriptive level the strategies and methods new states use to control communication through the written word can be judged by how and when formal decrees were issued, and how publishing media, whether in the form of publishing companies or at the individual level, engaged with political overseers. But equally, literature was a means of resistance against an authoritarian regime, not only for writers but for readers as well. From the point of view of historical memory and intellectual history, stories of people without...
O intuito deste livro é analisar a trajetória e as propostas da Revisão Editora, desde sua fundação, em 1987 até o ano de 2003 . A empresa, sediada em Porto Alegre, pertence a Siegfried Ellwanger, descendente de imigrantes alemães, que adotou o pseudônimo de S. E. Castan. Logo no início, a Revisão divulgou propostas que contestavam a existência do Holocausto, o que a aproximou do movimento denominado revisionismo histórico. Com número não desprezível de adeptos nos EUA e Europa, o movimento propõe rever os acontecimentos da Segunda Guerra. Tal movimento, nos meios acadêmicos, é denominado negacionista, pois, analisando-o detalhadamente, nota-se que a principal característica de seus adeptos é a defesa do anti-semitismo e a negação do Holocausto. Neste contexto a Revisão é tida como o principal pólo divulgador das propostas negacionistas no Brasil.
Der zweite Band des Handbuchs enthält mehr als 650 Biographien aus aller Welt von der Spätantike bis zur Gegenwart: Politiker, Wissenschaftler, Theologen, Künstler, Schriftsteller, Publizisten, Vertreter des Wirtschaftslebens, die ihre Judenfeindschaft öffentlich gemacht haben und damit Antijudaismus oder Antisemitismus förderten. Ebenso werden prominente Opfer wie Alfred Dreyfus, Habib Elghanian, Walther Rathenau, Emil Julius Gumbel vorgestellt und Vorkämpfer der Aufklärung und Toleranz wie Moses Mendelssohn, Gotthold Ephraim Lessing oder Christian Wilhelm von Dohm, die in der Abwehr von Judenfeindschaft eine wichtige Rolle spielten. Das Spektrum des biographischen Kompendiums reicht von den ersten Repräsentanten antijüdischen Denkens bis hin zu Vertretern des zeitgenössischen Antisemitismus - von Papst Leo dem Großen, Martin Luther, Abraham a Sancta Clara, Richard Wagner, Theodor Fontane, Houston Stewart Chamberlain und Henry Ford bis zu David Irving, Horst Mahler, Richard Williamson, Mahathir bin Mohamad und Mahmud Ahmadinedschad.
Este livro apresenta estudos feitos por pesquisadores de procedências variadas e se destaca pela diversidade das abordagens sobre política autoritária. Entre diversos outros temas, tenta responder, por exemplo, as seguintes questões: por que na Alemanha e na Itália se impuseram regimes fascistas? Que influência exerceram sobre países da América Latina? A publicação de uma obra que discute e problematiza o autoritarismo como forma política coloca na agenda do nosso tempo algo que nos é familiar e devemos compreender. O ato analítico e compreensivo parece, neste momento, a melhor forma de lidar com os desafios propostos pelas políticas de intolerância. Esperamos, como organizadores e autores, que este livro cumpra a tarefa de acrescentar mais um elemento crítico a esse debate.
Ao longo dos seis anos transcorridos desde a primeira publicação, o livro tornou-se um importante instrumento de consulta para os estudiosos do integralismo, sendo muito procurado por aqueles que realizam pesquisa sobre a imprensa no século XX, seja como objeto de estudo e/ou como fonte documental. Leandro Pereira Gonçalves Renata Duarte Simões Organizadores.