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Intellectuals and the search for national identity in twentieth-century Brazil
\"Intellectuals and the Search for National Identity in Twentieth-Century Brazil. This book discusses twentieth-century Brazilian political thought, arguing that while Rio de Janeiro intellectuals envisaged the state and the national bourgeoisie as the means to overcome dependency on foreign ideas and culture, Sao Paulo intellectuals looked to civil society and the establishment of new academic institutions in the search for national identity. Ronald H. Chilcote begins his study by outlining Brazilian intellectuals' attempt to transcend a sense of inferiority emanating from Brazilian colonialism and backwardness. Next, he traces the struggle for national identity in Rio de Janeiro through an account of how intellectuals of varying political persuasions united in search of a political ideology of national development. He then presents an analysis by Sao Paulo intellectuals on racial discrimination, social inequality, and class differentiation under early capitalism and industrialization. Lastly, the book concludes with a discussion on how Brazilian intellectuals challenged foreign thinking about development through the state and representative democratic institutions, in contrast to popular and participatory democratic practices. Ronald H. Chilcote is Professor of Economics and Political Science at the University of California, Riverside. He is a founder and managing editor of the bimonthly journal Latin American Perspectives and is the author or editor of more than two dozen major books\"-- Provided by publisher.
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The Portuguese revolution
Building on decades of research, leading scholar Ronald H. Chilcote provides a definitive analysis of the 1974–1975 Portuguese revolution, which captured global attention and continues to resonate today. His study revisits a key historical moment to explain the revolution and its aftermath through periods of authoritarianism and resistance as well as representative and popular democracy. Exploring the intertwined themes of class, state, and hegemony, Chilcote builds a powerful framework for understanding the Portuguese case as well as contemporary political economy worldwide.
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Protest and Resistance in Angola and Brazil
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
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Protest and Resistance in Angola and Brazil
Protest and Resistance in Angola and Brazil is a pioneering comparative study that bridges the traditional academic divide between Latin American and African studies. This collection of essays explores the historical and political parallels between Brazil and Portuguese Africa, focusing on movements of protest and resistance in both regions. By drawing on insights from history, political science, sociology, and anthropology, the volume presents a multifaceted examination of colonial legacies, social upheavals, and the struggles for self-determination. The essays, originally presented at a University of California seminar series in 1968, have been substantially revised to offer analytical depth and to raise new questions for future research. One of the central themes of the book is the intersection of colonial rule and indigenous resistance, revealing how different forms of oppression shaped both the Portuguese African colonies and Brazil. The volume offers a broad classification of protest movements, ranging from peasant uprisings and labor disputes to nationalist struggles and cultural resistance. Through its comparative approach, Protest and Resistance in Angola and Brazil highlights the structural similarities in colonial exploitation while also acknowledging the unique trajectories of resistance in each region. The rigorous discussions and interdisciplinary perspectives make this work an invaluable resource for scholars interested in colonialism, social movements, and the enduring impacts of historical resistance. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1972.
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The Cold War and the Transformation of Latin American Studies in the United States
The Cold War assumptions of mainstream Latin American studies in the United States were challenged in the 1960s by a new generation of academics that opened up the field to progressive thinking, including Marxism. West Coast intellectuals played a major role in this transformation. These new Latin Americanists rejected the university-governmentfoundation nexus in the field and emphasized field research that brought them into close relationships with Latin Americans struggling for change and engaging with radical alternatives to mainstream thinking. In the course of this work, they confronted efforts to co-opt them and to discourage and even prevent their field research. Despite this they managed to transform Latin American studies into a field that was intellectually and politically vibrant both in theory and in practice.
Los supuestos de la Guerra Fría dominantes en los estudios latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos fueron cuestionados en la década de 1960 por una nueva generación de académicos que abrió el campo al pensamiento progresista, incluso el Marxismo. Los intelectuales de la costa oeste jugaron un papel importante en esta transformación. Estos nuevos latinoamericanistas rechazaron el nexo universidadgobierno-fundación que caracterizó el campo y enfatizaron la investigación en el terreno que los ubicó en una estrecha relación con los latinoamericanos que luchan por el cambio y se enfrentan con alternativas radicales al pensamiento dominante. En el curso de este trabajo, confrontaron esfuerzos para cooptarlos y desalentar e incluso prevenir su investigación en el terreno. A pesar de esto, lograron transformar los estudios latinoamericanos en un campo que era intelectualmente y políticamente vibrante tanto en la teoría como en la práctica.
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Intellectuals, Social Theory, and Political Practice in Brazil
In introducing this issue on intellectual life in Brazil in the twentieth century, we shall attempt to provide a historical review and then describe the trajectory of major intellectuals and their influence on cultural life. Before we begin, we need to clarify what an intellectual is. The Italian thinker Antonio Gramsci (1971) distinguished two types: traditional intellectuals, such as teachers, priests, and administrators, who perform the same functions from generation to generation, and organic intellectuals, who are directly connected to classes in society and actively organize interests, seek power, and gain control. We are familiar with the traditional intellectual, who specializes in the production of ideas and knowledge and may be a scholar, a teacher, an artist, a journalist, a scientist, or an administrator. We may not be much aware of the organic intellectual. Carl Boggs (1993), examining the changes in intellectual life that accompany capitalist modernization, sees intellectuals as involved in a counterhegemonic struggle that goes beyond Gramsci's notion of the organic intellectual and advances the idea of an engaged public intellectual who works through social movements. This new type of intellectual, whether technocratic, critical, or organic, may be found in the mass media, education, the trade unions, the university, popular and social movements, artistic communities, and even the state. Paul Baran (1988) called the intellectual the conscience of society and the representative of progressive forces--a social critic concerned with overcoming obstacles to the achievement of a more humane and rational social order. Edward W. Said (1996) saw intellectuals as characterized by integrity, rigor of thought, conscience, and disdain for dogma but cautioned that they might be lured by money, power, or specialization. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]
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Introduction: Intellectuals, Social Theory, and Political Practice in Brazil
In introducing this issue on intellectual life in Brazil in the twentieth century, we shall attempt to provide a historical review and then describe the trajectory of major intellectuals and their influence on cultural life. Before we begin, we need to clarify what an intellectual is. The Italian thinker Antonio Gramsci (1971) distinguished two types: traditional intellectuals, such as teachers, priests, and administrators, who perform the same functions from generation to generation, and organic intellectuals, who are directly connected to classes in society and actively organize interests, seek power, and gain control. We are familiar with the traditional intellectual, who specializes in the production of ideas and knowledge and may be a scholar, a teacher, an artist, a journalist, a scientist, or an administrator. We may not be much aware of the organic intellectual. Carl Boggs (1993), examining the changes in intellectual life that accompany capitalist modernization, sees intellectuals as involved in a counterhegemonic struggle that goes beyond Gramsci's notion of the organic intellectual and advances the idea of an engaged public intellectual who works through social movements. This new type of intellectual, whether technocratic, critical, or organic, may be found in the mass media, education, the trade unions, the university, popular and social movements, artistic communities, and even the state. Paul Baran (1988) called the intellectual the conscience of society and the representative of progressive forces - a social critic concerned with overcoming obstacles to the achievement of a more humane and rational social order. Edward W. Said (1996) saw intellectuals as characterized by integrity, rigor of thought, conscience, and disdain for dogma but cautioned that they might be lured by money, power, or specialization.
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