La Relación entre Determinismo Geográfico y Racismo en la Ciencia Brasileña, Finales XIX, Principios XX (Reflexiones a Partir de Preto No Blanco de Skidmore)

Abstract

We try to assign geographic determinism its proper place in the history of the ideas of modern Brazil: from several examples taken from the classic Black White by Brazilianscholar Thomas Skidmore we show a complementary relation between geographic determinism and racism. Both doctrines served a Brazilian intellectual elite to rhetorically naturalize social inequalities and, in this way, to discard alternative ideas – historical - that projected a more just society for Brazil.