Thursday, February 22, 2018
4:00pm – 5:30pm
Joukowsky Forum, Watson Institute, 111 Thayer Street.
Drawing from mid nineteenth-century newspaper crônicas and medical pamphlets on European immigrants’ uncertain acclimatization in miasmatic (toxic) Rio’s inner city, my talk challenges these immigrants’ “unconditional whiteness,” and ultimately proposes to revise the paradigm of whitening framing discourses of immigration in Brazil.