Open AccessAfro-Brazilian Studies in the 1930s: Intellectual Networks between Brazil and the USA
Author(s) -
Amurábi Oliveira
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
brasiliana
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2245-4373
DOI - 10.25160/bjbs.v8i1-2.114694
Subject(s) - institutionalisation , field (mathematics) , humanities , political science , ethnology , sociology , art , law , pure mathematics , mathematics
In this article, I map some of the US-Brazil networks of intellectuals who helped to develop the field of Afro-Brazilian studies in the 1930s. While discussing the emergence and institutionalization of the field, I highlight the role of figures such as Rüdiger Bilden (1893-1980), Melville Herskovits (1895-1963), Donald Pierson (1900-1995), Gilberto Freyre (1900-1987), Arthur Ramos (1903-1949), Ruth Landes (1908-1991), and Edison Carneiro (1912-1972). Together, these scholars from the United States and Brazil were key to the development of Afro-Brazilian studies as an interdisciplinary field.