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The vigorous core of our nationality : race and regional identity in northeastern Brazil /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Blake, Stanley E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2011]
Series:Pitt Latin American series.
Subjects:
Brazil, Northeast > Social conditions > 20th century.
Brazil, Northeast > Social conditions > 19th century.
Brazil, Northeast > Race relations.
Brazil, Northeast > Civilization.
National characteristics, Brazilian.
Group identity > Brazil, Northeast.
Regionalism > Brazil, Northeast.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : nordeste and nation
  • The nineteenth-century origins of the nordestino, 1850-1870
  • Racial science in Pernambuco, 1870-1910
  • The medicalization of nordestinos, 1910-1925
  • Social hygiene : the science of reform, 1925-1940
  • Mental hygiene : the science of character, 1925-1940
  • Inventing the homem do nordeste : race, region, and the state, 1925-1940.