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Dissertation Information for Carmen Nava

NAME:
- Carmen Nava

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- History

SCHOOL:
- University of California, Los Angeles (USA) (1995)

ADVISORS:
- E. Bradford Burns

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- None

MPACT Status: Incomplete - Not_Inspected

Title: Patria and patriotism: Nationalism and national identity in Brazilian public schools, 1937-1974

Abstract: With the goal of consolidating its hegemony, the state uses the public school to transmit messages of nationalism and national identity. Evolving versions of national identity comprise a narrative that can be analyzed for continuity and change over time. This study documents nationalist ideology in official government policy for three Brazilians administrations: Getulio Vargas (1937-1945), Juscelino Kubitschek (1956-1961), and Emilio Garrastazu Medici (1969-1974). Federal policy for primary and middle school public education addressed the training of teachers, guidelines for classroom practices, and curriculum. Each official version of national identity contained a set of values, beliefs, and assumptions which were brought together and presented as "national" and "Brazilian." For each period under study, classroom textbooks, many of which were mandatory and/or officially endorsed, contained lessons and illustrations which directly addressed issues of nationalism and national identity. Further, the content of textbook lessons revealed a tight correlation with the rhetoric and policy of the federal administration in power. Vargas initiated a process whereby a newly activist state intervened in a process previously dominated by intellectuals, the crafting and promotion of nationalism and national identity. The same state that aggressively legislated in industrial policy and worker relations also set out to inculcate a newly centralized national myth among the nation's school children. Kubitschek continued the campaign to manage Brazil's national identity, but through democratic political process and according to his own model for accelerated economic development. Medici modified and refined the nationalist rhetoric, and intensified both transmission and enforcement of the official myth of "National Security and Development." In ways that were subtle and not-so-subtle, these administrations all sought democratic legitimacy, regardless and sometimes in spite of the characteristics of their development model and political approach. The versions documented in this study all gave lip service to celebrating Brazil's internal diversity of region, gender, race, and class. Nevertheless, the state's position was clear: the lesson Brazilian school children were meant to take to heart was that the highest social value was identity with the ideal of the Brazilian nation and, simultaneously, loyalty to the regime in power.

MPACT Scores for Carmen Nava

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calculated 2009-01-25 11:37:08

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