Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents

Warwick Anderson is the Janet Dora Hine Professor of Politics, Governance and Ethics in the Department of History and the Charles Perkins Centre at the University of Sydney. He is the author of The Cultivation of Whiteness (2002), Colonial Pathologies (2006), The Collectors of Lost Souls (2008), and with Ian R. Mackay, Intolerant Bodies (2014).

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Acknowledgments



Introduction

Warwick Anderson, Ricardo Roque, and Ricardo Ventura Santos



PART I: PICTURING AND READING FREYRE



Chapter 1. Gilberto Freyre’s View of Miscegenation and Its Circulation in the Portuguese Empire (1930s–1960s)

Cláudia Castelo



Chapter 2. Gilberto Freyre: Racial Populism and Ethnic Nationalism

Jerry Dávila



Chapter 3. Anthropology and Pan-Africanism at the Margins of the Portuguese Empire: Trajectories of Kamba Simango

Lorenzo Macagno



PART II: IMAGINING A MIXED-RACE NATION



Chapter 4. Eugenics, Genetics and Anthropology in Brazil: The Masters and the Slaves, Racial Miscegenation and Its Discontents

Robert Wegner and Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza



Chapter 5. Gilberto Freyre and the UNESCO Research Project on Race Relations in Brazil

Marcos Chor Maio



Chapter 6. “An Immense Mosaic”: Race Mixing and the Creation of the Genetic Nation in 1960s Brazil

Rosanna Dent and Ricardo Ventura Santos



PART III: THE COLONIAL SCIENCES OF RACE



Chapter 7. The Racial Science of Patriotic Primitives: António Mendes Correia in Portuguese Timor

Ricardo Roque



Chapter 8. Reassessing Portuguese Exceptionalism: Racial Concepts and Colonial Policies toward the “Bushmen” in Southern Angola, 1880s–1970s

Samuël Coghe



Chapter 9. “Anthropobiology”, Racial Miscegenation and Body Normality: Comparing Biotypological Studies in Brazil and Portugal, 1930–1940

Ana Carolina Vimieiro Gomes



PART IV: PORTUGUESENESS IN THE TROPICS



Chapter 10. Luso-Tropicalism Debunked, Again: Race, Racism, and Racialism in Three Portuguese-Speaking Societies

Cristiana Bastos



Chapter 11. Being Goan (Modern) in Zanzibar: Mobility, Relationality and the Stitching of Race

Pamila Gupta



Afterword I: Mixing the Global Color Palette

Nélia Dias



Afterword II: Luso-tropicalism and Mixture in the Latin American Context

Peter Wade



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