Empire Found: Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Popular Cultures: 25 (Contemporary Hispanic and Lusophone Cultures) - Hardcover

Daniel F. Silva

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1802070591 ISBN 13: 9781802070590

Publisher: Liverpool University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Empire Found: Racial Identities and Coloniality in Twenty-First Century Portuguese Popular Cultures examines how the discourses and narratives of Portuguese imperial exceptionalism and Portuguese racial identity, developed during the last centuries of Portuguese settler colonialism continue to inform an array of cultural production and consumption in the four decades since decolonization. By examining a range of contemporary popular cultural production (literature, football, musical production, and celebrity culture) in critical conversation with intellectual production of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, Empire Found examines how narratives of Portuguese racial hybridity and indeterminacy operate alongside ongoing structures of coloniality and white supremacy in the realms of cultural production. I argue that these implied or overt historical dialogues carried out through cultural production are integral to the very reproduction of the Portuguese nation-state apparatus, as well as its racial structures and claims to whiteness in the wake of decolonization and marginal integration into the European Union.

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About the Author

Daniel F. Silva is Associate Professor of Luso-Hispanic Studies, Director of Black Studies, and Director of the Twilight Project at Middlebury College.

Edition details

• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1802070591
• ISBN 13: 9781802070590
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 224