O Brasil no concerto das nações: a luta contra o racismo nos primórdios da Unesco

Abstract

This article has the objective of approaching the political and scientific context that led Brazil to the position of Unesco paradigm for racial matters. I set out from the hypothesis that soon after the Holocaust, the positive image of race relations in Brazil was in greater evidence, becoming sort of anti-Nazi Germany. At this time, a number of unforeseen efforts took place in the sense of striving for an association between the search for understanding the German totalitarian phenomenon, the radical critique of the scientific standing of the concept of race, the evidencing of socio-economic demands of underdeveloped countries, and the choice of Brazil as a socio-anthropological laboratory. This combination of aims only became viable from the onset of a transnational political-academic alliance universalistic in nature.

The concept and measurement of race and their relationship to public health: a review focused on Brazil and the United States

“…After World War II, Montagu wrote the final text of the UNESCO Statement on Race that denied any scientific meaning for the concept of race. Many physical anthropologists and biomedical scientists strongly opposed this document 14 . However, a study of the definitions of race in physical anthropology textbooks published between 1932 and 1979 clearly showed that the entire field moved towards Montagu's view over time 15 .…”

Tecendo um mundo de diferenças

“…Sua produção tornou-se assim amplamente conhecida nacional e internacionalmente, difundindo a ideia de miscigenação como uma ideologia de formação nacional brasileira. Essa ideologia substituía a visão pessimista da contribuição das raças formadoras da sociedade brasileira por um enfoque positivo, no qual o intercurso racial transformou-se em indicador de tolerância e harmonia, tornando-se um dos principais alicerces ideológicos da integração racial e do desenvolvimento do país (Maio, 1998). (Chagas, 2007).…”

A Casa Das Minas De São Luís Do Maranhão E a Saga De Nã Agontimé

“…33 Remeto o leitor interessado a todo o trecho de Eduardo (1948: 77 Maio (1999Maio ( , 1998 (Hazoumé, 1938).…”