Futebol mulato: racial constructs in Brazilian football

The aim of this paper is to review Gilberto Freyre’s ideas about futebol mulato and the way these ideas have spread the notion of the Brazilian mulatto as a symbol of a ‘racial democracy’, unique in Brazil, around the world. The notion first appeared in 1938 in an article by Freyre for the Diários A...

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Main Authors: Tiago Fernandes Maranhao, Jorge Knijnik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: UTS ePRESS 2011-05-01
Series:Cosmopolitan Civil Societies: An Interdisciplinary Journal
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Online Access:https://learning-analytics.info/journals/index.php/mcs/article/view/1790