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Published to wide acclaim in 1974, Thomas E. Skidmore's intellectual history of Brazilian racial ideology has become a classic in the field. Available for the first time in paperback, this edition has been updated to include a new preface and bibliography that surveys recent scholarship in the field. Black into White is a broad-ranging study of what the leading Brazilian intellectuals thought and propounded about race relations between 1870 and 1930. In an effort to reconcile social realities with the doctrines of scientific racism, the Brazilian ideal of "whitening"—the theory that the Brazilian population was becoming whiter as race mixing continued—was used to justify the recruiting of European immigrants and to falsely claim that Brazil had harmoniously combined a multiracial society of Europeans, Africans, and indigenous peoples.
Contains records describing books, book chapters, articles, and conference papers published in the field of Latin American studies. Coverage includes relevant books as well as over 800 social science and 550 humanities journals and volumes of conference proceedings. Most records include abstracts with evaluations.
Desde a sua criação, a então Cátedra de Teoria Geral do Estado da Faculdade de Direito da UFMG se revelou locus de potentes intelectuais, que não somente ministravam sua cadeira com excelência, mas se ocupavam da edificação de uma verdadeira Escola de Pensamento. Uma Escola marcada, desde sua irrupção, pelo caráter transversal e interdisciplinar que norteia as reflexões sobre o Estado, bem como pelo esforço irresoluto no fomento à diversidade de perspectivas e comunidade de projetos. Nesse sentido, coube sempre a quem Nela se assentava prosseguir a tarefa hercúlea de altear o Estado de Direito como fator axial da Contemporaneidade, projeto iniciado por seu fundador, Orlando Ma...
The IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institution whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.
Reflects the elegant achievement of Kant. This title provides a roadmap to Kant's abstract and complex argumentation by locating his view in the context of eighteenth-century, and attempts to understand the nature of the thinking mind and its ability to comprehend the physical universe.