The first analysis of a new phenomenon in Brazil, wherein a growing number of mestizos are asserting Indian identities, and racial politics and understandings of race formation have radically shifted.
The first analysis of a new phenomenon in Brazil, wherein a growing number of mestizos are asserting Indian identities, and racial politics and unders...
Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of "pardos" (individuals of mixed African, European, and indigenous descent) have chosen to identify themselves as Indians. In "Racial Revolutions--"the first book-length study of racial formation in Brazil that centers on Indianness--Jonathan W. Warren draws on extensive fieldwork and numerous interviews to illuminate the discursive and material forces responsible for this resurgence in the population. The growing number of pardos who claim Indian identity represents a radical shift in...
Since the 1970s there has been a dramatic rise in the Indian population in Brazil as increasing numbers of "pardos" (individuals of mixed African, Eur...
