The making of a white region in postwar South Brazil

• Grant number: 16/20471-6
• Support Opportunities: Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate
• Start date: February 15, 2017
• End date: October 14, 2017
• Field of knowledge: Humanities - Sociology - Other specific Sociologies
• Principal Investigator: Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães
• Grantee: Benno Victor Warken Alves
• Supervisor: Barbara Weinstein
• Host Institution: Faculdade de Filosofia, Letras e Ciências Humanas (FFLCH). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil
• Institution abroad: New York University, United States
• Associated to the scholarship: 14/24976-0 - Family trajectories and the formation of whiteness in Southern Brazil, BP.DR

Abstract

This is a BEPE proposal for a period of 8 months at New York University under the advisory of prof. Barbara Weinstein. The research to be carried out during the internship is linked to my broader Ph.D. investigation about the making of whiteness in postwar south Brazil. More specifically, I will address problems related to whiteness, regionalism and racial democracy based fundamentally on data I have already collected. Some of my objectives are discussing data and interpretations, discovering new sources and bibliography, writing a research text that may become one or two chapters of the thesis, presenting it at seminars and congresses, taking a graduate course at NYU and, if possible, a one-week course at The New School. I expect to make great theoretical and interpretative advancements during the stay at NYU.