The vigorous core of our nationality : race and regional identity in northeastern Brazil /

Blake, Stanley E.,

The vigorous core of our nationality : race and regional identity in northeastern Brazil / Stanley E. Blake. - 1 online resource (328 pages) : maps. - Pitt Latin American series . - Pitt Latin American series. .

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-307) and index.

Introduction : nordeste and nation -- The nineteenth-century origins of the nordestino, 1850-1870 -- Racial science in Pernambuco, 1870-1910 -- The medicalization of nordestinos, 1910-1925 -- Social hygiene : the science of reform, 1925-1940 -- Mental hygiene : the science of character, 1925-1940 -- Inventing the homem do nordeste : race, region, and the state, 1925-1940.

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Regionalism--Brazil, Northeast.
Group identity--Brazil, Northeast.
National characteristics, Brazilian.


Brazil, Northeast--Civilization.
Brazil, Northeast--Race relations.
Brazil, Northeast--Social conditions--19th century.
Brazil, Northeast--Social conditions--20th century.


Electronic books.

F2583 / .B53 2011

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