{"id":5831,"date":"2016-08-01T14:32:05","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T17:32:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/?p=5831"},"modified":"2016-12-20T23:05:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-21T01:05:06","slug":"miscegenation-in-the-early-twentieth-century","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/miscegenation-in-the-early-twentieth-century\/","title":{"rendered":"Defending miscegenation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\">August 2016<\/p>\n<p>The paper\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1590\/S0104-59702016005000014 \" target=\"_blank\">Science and miscegenation in the early twentieth century: \u2019s debates and controversies with US physical anthropology<\/a>, analyzes the Brazilian anthropologist Edgard Roquette-Pinto&#8217;s participation in the international debate on this topic.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_6405\" style=\"width: 279px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1590\/S0104-59702016005000014 \" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6405\" class=\" wp-image-6405    \" alt=\"RoquettePinto\" src=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/RoquettePinto.jpg\" width=\"269\" height=\"384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/RoquettePinto.jpg 420w, https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/RoquettePinto-210x300.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 269px) 100vw, 269px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6405\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Edgar Roquette-Pinto with indigenous children. Image from the book \u2018Antropologia brasiliana \u2013 ci\u00eancia e educa\u00e7\u00e3o na obra de Edgar Roquette-Pinto\u2019, organized by N\u00edsia Trindade Lima.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the United States and Europe the issue has generated heated debates due to its racist\u00a0theories in part to defend imperialist interests in the African, Asian and American continents.<\/p>\n<p>Written by the renowned Brazilia historian Vanderlei Sebasti\u00e3o de Souza, the paper focus on Roquette-Pinto&#8217;s interpretations of a group of anthropologists &#8211; Charles Davenport, Madison Grant, Franz Boasand &#8211; and on his controversies with them.<\/p>\n<p>According to the article, his readings of these authors were politically selective; he adopted the arguments that best served the purpose of valorizing \u201cBrazil\u2019s mixed race\u201d and refuted those that contradicted the idea.<\/p>\n<p>From the author&#8217;s perspective, the various ways in which Roquette-Pinto adopted anthropological ideas should be seen as products of his political efforts to defend Brazil\u2019s racial identity and to stress his anti-colonial position.<\/p>\n<p>Read in our blog:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/roquette-pintos-viable-mestizo-brazil\/\">Roquette-Pinto\u2019s viable, mestizo Brazil <\/a>&#8211; Interview with Vanderlei Sebasti\u00e3o de Souza.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/eugenics-and-education-in-brazil\/\">Eugenics and Education in Brazil\u00a0<\/a>\u00a0&#8211; Interview with Jerry D\u00e1vila.<\/p>\n<h1><\/h1>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The paper explores the role of the Brazilian anthropologist Edgard Roquette-Pinto in the international debate on this topic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":5833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[669,670,778],"class_list":["post-5831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-highlights","tag-edgard-roquette-pinto","tag-miscegenation","tag-vanderlei-sebastiao"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5831"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6610,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5831\/revisions\/6610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/revistahcsm.coc.fiocruz.br\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}