{"product_id":"the-color-of-modernity-so-paulo-and-the-making-of-race-and-nation-in-brazil-9780822357773","title":"The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil","description":"In \u003ci\u003eThe Color of Modernity\u003c\/i\u003e, Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes-the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution and 1954's IV Centen rio, the quadricentennial of S o Paulo's founding-this book shows how both elites and popular sectors in S o Paulo embraced a regional identity that emphasized their European origins and aptitude for modernity and progress, attributes that became-and remain-associated with \"whiteness.\" This racialized regionalism naturalized and reproduced regional inequalities, as S o Paulo became synonymous with prosperity while Brazil's Northeast, a region plagued by drought and poverty, came to represent backwardness and S o Paulo's racial \"Other.\" This view of regional difference, Weinstein argues, led to development policies that exacerbated these inequalities and impeded democratization.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Barbara Weinstein\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/04\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 472\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.39lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.88h x 6.47w x 0.95d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780822357773\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBarbara Weinstein is the Silver Professor of History at New York University. She is the coeditor of \u003ci\u003eThe Making of the Middle Class: Toward a Transnational History\u003c\/i\u003e, also published by Duke University Press, and the author of \u003ci\u003eFor Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo, 1920-1964\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40214602317939,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":36.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5520c86a-7f3b-4c3d-951e-06f71d6ecb85.jpg?v=1656510432","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/the-color-of-modernity-so-paulo-and-the-making-of-race-and-nation-in-brazil-9780822357773","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}