SCA-UA 572 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Christ Child, Paulistas, Dom Casmurro
5 Feb 2015
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Topic: whiteness and immigration in sao paulo (1880s-1920s: leading industrial center of 3rd world (?, sao paulo is slightly inland, not a coastal city, place of initial coffee boom, quarter of population ; not geographically prominent. Slide: subsidized immigration as a source of cheap labor. Immigrants with money are of no use to us martinho prado: they need immigrants who are desperate to work, cheap, european immigrant labor. Slide: modesto brocos y gomez, redemption of ham (1895: spanish immigrant, bible story, baby jesus / mary. Positive display of miscegenation: not a story of degeneration, da cunha argues that race mixture brings forth worst features of races, european immigration would have a transformative effect on brazil. Slide: immigrant entrepreneurs: francisco matarazzo: came to brazil as a merchant and brought lard to sell, first goal was to cater to consumption needs of immigrants, extremely successful family.
