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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface to the 1993 edition -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 The intellectual context of abolition in Brazil -- 2 Racial realities and racial thought after abolition -- 3 Politics, literature, and the Brazilian sense of nationality before 1910 -- 4 The national image and the search for immigrants -- 5 The new nationalism -- 6 The whitening ideal after scientific racism -- Note on sources and methodology -- Notes -- Selected bibliographical index -- Bibliography to the 1993 edition -- Index

"The largest and most important country in Latin America, Brazil was the first to succumb to the military coups that struck that region in the 1960s and the early 1970s. In this authoritative study, Thomas E. Skidmore, one of America's leading experts on Latin America and, in particular, on Brazil, offers the first analysis of more than two decades of military rule, from the overthrow of Joco Goulart in 1964, to the return of democratic civilian government in 1985 with the presidency of Josi Sarney. A sequel to Skidmore's highly acclaimed Politics in Brazil, 1930-1964, this volume explores the military rule in depth ... Skidmore's study provides insight into the nature of this transition in Brazil and what it may tell about the fate of democracy in the Third World."--Publisher description

Dale Torston Graden has tackled the large topic of Brazilian abolitionism, wisely seeing it as a bundle of multiple stories, each with its own causation. The reality is complex and can only be unraveled by a careful exploration of these stories. This is all the more difficult in a book that is part of a "series of course adoption books on Latin America," because of the need to give the exposition a certain clarity that may perforce simplify to some degree the complexities of the reality behind the stories. The result is well worth the effort the author clearly devoted to it.