Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents
Anderson, Warwick / Roque, Ricardo / Santos, Ricardo Ventura![Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents](https://support.digitalhusky.com/media/annotations/sorted/384/38438704/CHSBZCOP0338438704.jpg)
Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre's Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speak...