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Book Review Section: Lusotropical Racism: Angola & Brazil Nationalism in Portuguese Africa, Protest & Resistance in Angola & Brazil: Comparative Studies

This study represents an ambitious attempt by documentationalist Chilcote to introduce a cross-cultural comparative approach into the study of "Portuguese" Africa. The essays collected here were originally papers presented at an eight-week long colloquium on Brazil and Portugal's African colonies, held from January through March, 1968, at the Riverside and Los Angeles campuses of the University of California (for a full report see: Ronald H. Chilcote "Brazil and Portuguese Africa in Comparative Perspective," in: Latin American Research Review, Winter 1969, pp. 125-136). Starting from the common denominator of Portugal's 'Luso-Imperialism,' the authors of the selections in this volume have set out to examine the multifaceted socio-political, historical, cultural, and economic factors which have contributed to the violent heritage of protest and resistance in Brazil and Angola, respectively. In view of Brazil's current overtures to Africa (reflected in the controversial 1972 visit of Brazilian Foreign Minister, Senhor Mario Gibson Barbosa to West Africa), this book could not have been more timely (which also coincides with Lisbon's current implementation of "multiracial" autonomy in Angola, Mozambique, and Guinea-Bissau). One result is the exposure of Portugal's "lusotropical" sophistry which has served as its ideological tool for rationalizing its centuries of African exploitation (and similarly used by Brazil for legitimatizing its own domestic and international policies). In addition, Marvin Harris, in his "Comparative Overview" essay, "Portugal's Contribution to the Underdevelopment of Africa and Brazil," clearly defines New World-African interdependence at an earlier historical period as characterized by the latter's role as: " ... breeder and supplier of the laborers whose work on cash-crop slave plantations determined the development trajectory of vast portions of the circum-Caribbean, and of tropical and semi-tropical North and South America" (reviewer's italics). This historical relationship between Africa and the Americas might well be kept in mind as Brazil shows signs of renewing its relations with Black Africa on a more active basis while simultaneously flirting with the white rulers of Southern Africa (See: "Brazil's View of Africa: I," by Anani Dzidzienyo in: West Africa, London, 13 November, 1972).