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).

“This well-edited, highly stimulating book provides a ‘view from the edge’ that will be of great interest not only to Luso-Brazilianists and historians of Portuguese colonialism, but also to scholars concerned with racial theories, eugenics, biopolitics, and (post-)colonial studies.” • Centaurus“Despite scholarly consensus regarding the fallacy of lusotropicalism, the idea continues to circulate in both classic and neological forms. This volume makes a valiant attempt to reroute the conversation.” 
• Hispanic American Historical Review“A valuable and wide-ranging addition to the literature on Luso-tropicalism, this book will appeal to a variety of readers and make a considerable impact on the field.” • Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke, Emmanuel College“The breadth of analysis in Luso-tropicalism and Its Discontents is extraordinary, and the diverse range of contributors here is second to none. The collective and individual aspects of the work contribute in new ways to the discussion on race relations and global history.” • Richard Cleminson, University of Leeds

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgmentsIntroductionWarwick Anderson, Ricardo Roque, and Ricardo Ventura SantosPART I: PICTURING AND READING FREYREChapter 1. Gilberto Freyre’s View of Miscegenation and Its Circulation in the Portuguese Empire (1930s–1960s)Cláudia CasteloChapter 2. Gilberto Freyre: Racial Populism and Ethnic NationalismJerry DávilaChapter 3. Anthropology and Pan-Africanism at the Margins of the Portuguese Empire: Trajectories of Kamba SimangoLorenzo MacagnoPART II: IMAGINING A MIXED-RACE NATIONChapter 4. Eugenics, Genetics and Anthropology in Brazil: The Masters and the Slaves, Racial Miscegenation and Its DiscontentsRobert Wegner and Vanderlei Sebastião de SouzaChapter 5. Gilberto Freyre and the UNESCO Research Project on Race Relations in BrazilMarcos Chor MaioChapter 6. “An Immense Mosaic”: Race Mixing and the Creation of the Genetic Nation in 1960s BrazilRosanna Dent and Ricardo Ventura SantosPART III: THE COLONIAL SCIENCES OF RACEChapter 7. The Racial Science of Patriotic Primitives: António Mendes Correia in Portuguese TimorRicardo RoqueChapter 8. Reassessing Portuguese Exceptionalism: Racial Concepts and Colonial Policies toward the “Bushmen” in Southern Angola, 1880s–1970sSamuël CogheChapter 9. “Anthropobiology”, Racial Miscegenation and Body Normality: Comparing Biotypological Studies in Brazil and Portugal, 1930–1940Ana Carolina Vimieiro GomesPART IV: PORTUGUESENESS IN THE TROPICSChapter 10. Luso-Tropicalism Debunked, Again: Race, Racism, and Racialism in Three Portuguese-Speaking SocietiesCristiana BastosChapter 11. Being Goan (Modern) in Zanzibar: Mobility, Relationality and the Stitching of RacePamila GuptaAfterword I: Mixing the Global Color PaletteNélia DiasAfterword II: Luso-tropicalism and Mixture in the Latin American ContextPeter WadeIndex