'ReCapricorning' the Atlantic: Special Issue of Luso-Brazilian Review 45:1 (2008)

by Peter M. Beattie (Editor)

Overview

This special issue of Luso-Brazilian Review includes articles on the Lusophone South Atlantic by historians of Africa and Brazil originally presented in May of 2006 at the Michigan State University and University of Michigan’s Atlantic History Workshop “ReCapricorning the Atlantic: Luso-Brazilian and Luso-African Perspectives on the Atlantic World.” Workshop participants set out to “ReCapricorn the Atlantic” by assessing how new research on the Lusophone South Atlantic modifies, challenges, or confirms major trends and paradigms in the expanding scholarship on Atlantic History.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299237837
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	03/01/2010
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	226
File size:	897 KB

About the Author

Peter M. Beattie is associate professor of history and the acting director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Michigan State University. His research interests lie at the intersection of Brazil’s state institutions and its multiracial and multiethnic poor (including enslaved populations) from around 1850 to 1950 through a combination of social, cultural, and institutional history. He is coeditor of the Luso-Brazilian Review.

Table of Contents

‘ReCapricorning’ the Atlantic
Peter M. Beattie

“Black Troops” and Hierarchies of Color in the Portuguese Atlantic World: The Case of Henrique Dias and His Black Regiment
Hebe Mattos

Virgem Imperial: Nossa Senhora e império marítimo português
Juliana Beatriz de Almeida Souza

“Being now, as it were, one family”: Shipmate bonding on the slave vessel Emilia, in Rio de Janeiro and throughout the Atlantic World
Walter Hawthorne

Para africano ver: African-Bahian Exchanges in the Reinvention of Brazil’s Racial Democracy, 1961–63
Paulina Alberto

O antes e o depois: Feminilidade, classe e raça na revista Plástica e Beleza
Thaïs Machado-Borges

Paula Rego’s Sabotage of Tradition: ‘Visions’ of Femininity
Ana Gabriela Macedo

Decanting the Past: Africa, Colonialism, and the New Portuguese Novel
Isabel Ferreira Gould

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