Uneven Encounters : Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States
In Uneven Encounters , Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe , to Rio musicians embracing the "foreign" qualities of jazz, Seigel traces a lively, cultural back and forth. Along the way, she shows how race and nation for both elites and non-elites are constructed together, and driven by global cultural and
1 online resource (410 pages).
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Illustrations; Preface; Note on Language; Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1. Producing Consumption: Coffee and Consumer Citizenship; 2. Maxixe's Travels: Cultural Exchange and Erasure; 3. Playing Politics: Making the Meanings of Jazz in Rio de Janeiro; 4. Nation Drag: Uses of the Exotic; 5. Another "Global Vision": (Trans)Nationalism in the São Paulo Black Press; 6. Black Mothers, Citizen Sons; Conclusion; Abbreviations; Notes; Discography; Bibliography; Index