Uneven Encounters: Making Race and Nation in Brazil and the United States

by Micol Seigel

Book Overview

In Uneven Encounters, Micol Seigel chronicles the exchange of popular culture between Brazil and the United States in the years between the World Wars, and demonstrates how that exchange affected ideas of race and nation in both countries. From Americans interpreting advertisements for Brazilian coffee or dancing the Brazilian maxixe, to Rio musicians embracing the "foreign" qualities of jazz, Seigel traces a lively, cultural back and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822344408
• ISBN13: 9780822344407
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 408 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"