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... How did the emerging paulista elite make sense of the rapid changes in the region’s fortunes? This chapter explores the precocious formation of a discourse of paulista exceptionalism that began with the post-1870s coffee boom. This boom fueled a vision of São Paulo as uniquely inclined...

... of subjectivity in the process of political conflict, rather than a priori causes. It then discusses how the linking of paulista identity with the discourse of constitutionalism and the rule of law reinforced a notion of regional superiority that became increasingly racialized, and identified the allegedly...

... Unlike previous Brazilian conflicts, women played an active role in the Constitutionalist Movement and in a wide range of support services for the 1932uprising. The prominent role of women also served to reinforce claims about regional modernity and the paulistas’ sense of civic duty. However...

... This chapter approaches the history of the neighborhood of São Miguel Paulista in the context of São Paulo’s rapid industrialization and urbanization. São Miguel was transformed by the establishment of Companhia Nitro Química Brasileira there in 1935, and became the fastest-growing area...

... Leaders and chroniclers of the Constitutionalist Revolution claimed that paulistas from all walks of life supported the uprising but imagined the typical paulista soldier as white, male, and middle-class. This chapter examines the participation and opposition of various segments of paulista...

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... the construction of subjectivity in the process of political conflict, rather than a priori causes. It then discusses how the linking of paulista identity with the discourse of constitutionalism and the rule of law reinforced a notion of regional superiority that became increasingly racialized, and identified...

... appeal to the paulista middle class and political representatives’ promotion of more popular festivities. commemorations industrialization growth spectacles migration progress History was front and center at the quadricentennial commemorations in 1954. This chapter explores the different...

..., in Brazil and elsewhere. It traces the outlines of São Paulo’s rise to economic hegemony within Brazil and how this reinforced the association of whiteness with modernity, and produced a racialized regional identity based on the notion of paulista exceptionalism. It discusses the similarities between...

... Given the very real differences in levels of wealth and economic production between São Paulo and most other Brazilian states, but especially those in the North and Northeast, how did political groups in the latter regions respond to claims of paulista superiority? This chapter examines...

... definition of paulistinidade, but by 1957 the main theme was the implications of the “paulista war” for the state of democracy in Brazil. memory democracy unity meaning jubilee Causa Paulista ...

... hundredth anniversary of São Paulo’s founding. This “IV Centenário” in 1954 provided an occasion to celebrate São Paulo’s triumph and underscore its centrality to Brazil’s economic progress, but there was constant tension between organizers’ tendency to focus on activities that would appeal to the paulista...

... The conclusion seek to summarize the main arguments and findings of the book. By analyzing densely the case of the Northeastern workers in São Miguel Paulista, it highlights the attempts to build a bridge between local experiences and the great processes that Brazilian society underwent between...

... in the literature, between “resident” and “worker.” In addition, the chapter discusses attempts by separatist movements in São Miguel Paulista to secede from the city of São Paulo. Feeling abandoned by the government, these movements believed that the transformation of the neighborhood into an autonomous city could...