Rich Nation, Poor Nation: A History of Race, Region, and Inequality in Brazil
Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History and chair of the history department at New York University, where she teaches Brazilian and modern Latin American history. Her research has focused on Amazonian political economy, relations between industrialists and workers, intersections of race, gender, and class, and the problem of spatial inequalities. Her recent book, The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015) studies the formation and impact of racialized regional identities. Weinstein was the 2007 president of the American Historical Association.
In her talk, Weinstein will focus specifically on how, in the case of Brazil, which is a nation with a long history of severe spatial inequalities, regional differences have become increasingly racialized and more deeply entrenched.
Professor Weinstein's Athenaeum presentation is sponsored by funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.