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Author Matos, Patrícia Ferraz de

Title The colours of the empire : racialized representations during Portuguese colonialism / Patrícia Ferraz de Matos ; translated by Mark Ayton
Published New York : Berghahn Books, ©2013

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 288 pages) : illustrations
Series European anthropology in translation ; v. 4
European anthropology in translation ; v. 4.
Contents Tables and Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Acronyms and Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter I -- Origins of a Prejudice: The Roots of Racial Discrimination; Chapter II -- Discourse, Images, Knowledge: The Place of the Colonies and Their Populations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire; Chapter III -- Exhibiting the Empire, Imagining the Nation: Representations of the Colonies and the Overseas Portuguese in the Great Exhibitions; Conclusion; Appendix I -- Film; Appendix II -- Texts from the padrões of Portugal dos Pequenitos; Bibliography; Index
Summary The Portuguese Colonial Empire established its base in Africa in the fifteenth century and would not be dissolved until 1975. This book investigates how the different populations under Portuguese rule were represented within the context of the Colonial Empire by examining the relationship between these representations and the meanings attached to the notion of 'race'. Colour, for example, an apparently objective criterion of classification, became a synonym or near-synonym for 'race', a more abstract notion for which attempts were made to establish scientific credibility. Through her analys
Notes Translation of: As cores do império
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force. WlAbNL
Subject Racism -- Portuguese-speaking countries
Indigenous peoples -- Portuguese-speaking countries
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Emigration & Immigration.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
Indigenous peoples
Portuguese colonies
Racism
SUBJECT Portugal -- Colonies -- History
Subject Portuguese-speaking countries
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Ayton, Mark
LC no. 2012012562
ISBN 9780857457639
0857457632
Other Titles Cores do império. English
Colors of the empire