Becoming Brazilians

Marshall C. Eakin is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University, Tennessee. A specialist in modern Brazilian history, he is the author of four books including The History of Latin America: Collision of Cultures (2007). He co-edited Envisioning Brazil: A Guide to Brazilian Studies in the United States (2005), with Paulo Roberto de Almeida.

• Introduction: creating a people and a nation; 1. From the 'Spectacle of Races' to 'Luso-Tropical Civilization'; 2. The sounds of Mestiçagem: radio, samba, and Carnaval; 3. Visualizing Mestiçagem: film, literature, and the Mulata; 4. 'Globo-lizing' Brazil: televising identity; 5. The beautiful game: performing the Freyrean vision; 6. The sounds of cultural citizenship; 7. Identity, culture, and citizenship; Epilogue: nation and identity in the twentieth century, and the twenty-first.

'Becoming Brazilian is a comprehensive analysis of how racial mixture became heralded as a positive feature of Brazil over the course of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of sources, this insightful study untangles the different components of this notion of national identity shared by most Brazilians, and criticized by others.' James N. Green, Brown University, Rhode Island