The Color of Modernity
The Color of Modernity
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现代性的色彩
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2015
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B. Weinstein
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在《现代性的色彩》一书中，芭芭拉·温斯坦关注巴西民族认同形成过程中的种族、性别和地域主义；这种关注使她能够探索如何巩固和理解经济发展的不平衡模式。本书围绕着两个主要章节——1932年的立宪革命和1954年的四百年纪念（圣保罗建城四百周年）——展开，展示了圣保罗的精英和大众是如何接受一种地区认同的，这种认同强调了他们的欧洲起源和对现代和进步的天赋，这些属性成为了——并且仍然与“白人”联系在一起。这种种族化的地区主义使地区不平等归化并重现，圣保罗成为繁荣的代名词，而巴西东北部，一个饱受干旱和贫困困扰的地区，成为落后和圣保罗种族“他者”的代表。温斯坦认为，这种对地区差异的看法导致了发展政策加剧了这些不平等，阻碍了民主化。
In The Color of Modernity , Barbara Weinstein focuses on race, gender, and regionalism in the formation of national identities in Brazil; this focus allows her to explore how uneven patterns of economic development are consolidated and understood. Organized around two principal episodes—the 1932 Constitutionalist Revolution and 1954’s IV Centenario, the quadricentennial of Sao Paulo’s founding—this book shows how both elites and popular sectors in Sao Paulo embraced a regional identity that emphasized their European origins and aptitude for modernity and progress, attributes that became—and remain—associated with “whiteness.” This racialized regionalism naturalized and reproduced regional inequalities, as Sao Paulo became synonymous with prosperity while Brazil’s Northeast, a region plagued by drought and poverty, came to represent backwardness and Sao Paulo’s racial “Other.” This view of regional difference, Weinstein argues, led to development policies that exacerbated these inequalities and impeded democratization.