![]() As Thomas Skidmore writes, with the publication of this tome, “readers were being given the first scholarly examination of Brazilian national character with an unabashedly optimistic message: Brazilians could be proud of their unique, ethnically mixed tropical civilization. ![]() ![]() ![]() In his study, Freyre set out to detail the varied components of Brazilian society, revealing the contributions made by indigenous inhabitants of the land, Portuguese settlers, and their African slaves in the colonial period. Published in 1933, the text served as a response to the notions of racial degeneracy that had dominated American thought since the nineteenth century. ![]() Casa-Grande e Senzala, the seminal text by Gilberto Freyre, continues to be cited as an achievement in a wide variety of fields, including anthropology, sociology, history, literature, and cultural studies, both in Latin America as well as in the United States. ![]()
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