Shifting the Meaning of Democracy
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Shifting the Meaning of Democracy

Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil

  1. 392 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Shifting the Meaning of Democracy

Race, Politics, and Culture in the United States and Brazil

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Shifting the Meaning of Democracy
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. List of Illustrations
  8. Acknowledgments
  9. A Note on Terminology
  10. Abbreviations and Acronyms
  11. Introduction
  12. 1. Communist Racial Democracy in the 1930s
  13. 2. Embattled Images of Racial Democracy: State Anticommunism in the 1930s
  14. 3. Presaging the War: Racial Democracy and Fascism in the 1930s
  15. 4. State Cultural Production, Black Cultural Demarginalization, and Racial Democracy in the 1930s
  16. 5. The Centrality of Race and Democracy in the US-Brazil Wartime Alliance
  17. 6. A Partnership in Cultural Production: The Brazil-US Racial Democracy Exchange
  18. 7. Wartime Racial Democracy at Home: Domestic Pressures and In-House Propaganda
  19. Conclusion
  20. Notes
  21. Bibliography
  22. Index