Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917-1945

by Jerry Dávila

In Brazil, the country with the largest population of African descent in the Americas, the idea of race underwent a dramatic shift in the first half of the twentieth century. Brazilian authorities, who had considered race a biological fact, began to view it as a cultural and environmental condition. Jerry D vila explores the significance of this transition by looking at the history of the Rio de Janeiro school system between 1917 and 1945. He demonstrates...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822330709
• ISBN13: 9780822330707
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"