Color of Modernity - Sao Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil

Barbara Weinstein is the Silver Professor of History at New York University. She is the coeditor of The Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964.

List of contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Paulista Modern  27

Part I: The War of São Paulo

2. Constituting Paulista Identity  71

3. The Middle Class in Arms? Fighting for São Paulo  110

4. Marianne into Battle? The Mulher Paulista and the Revolution of 1932  161

5. Provincializing São Paulo: The "Other" Regions Strike Back  192

Part II: Commemorating São Paulo

6. São Paulo Triumphant  221

7. Exhibiting Exceptionalism: History at the IV Centenário  267

8. The White Album: Memory, Identity, and the 1932 Uprising  296

Epilogue and Conclusion  331

Notes   345

Bibliography  419

Index  445

About the author

Barbara Weinstein

Product details

• Authors: Barbara Weinstein
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.03.2015
• EAN: 9780822357629
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-5762-9
• No. of pages: 472
• Series: Radical Perspectives; Radical Perspectives
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous