TY - BOOK AU - Blake,Stanley E. ED - Project Muse. TI - The vigorous core of our nationality: race and regional identity in northeastern Brazil T2 - Pitt Latin American series SN - 9780822977704 AV - F2583 .B53 2011 U1 - 305.800981/3 22 PY - 2011/// CY - Pittsburgh, Pa. PB - University of Pittsburgh Press KW - National characteristics, Brazilian KW - Group identity KW - Brazil, Northeast KW - Regionalism KW - Social conditions KW - 20th century KW - 19th century KW - Race relations KW - Civilization KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 285-307) and index; Introduction : nordeste and nation -- The nineteenth-century origins of the nordestino, 1850-1870 -- Racial science in Pernambuco, 1870-1910 -- The medicalization of nordestinos, 1910-1925 -- Social hygiene : the science of reform, 1925-1940 -- Mental hygiene : the science of character, 1925-1940 -- Inventing the homem do nordeste : race, region, and the state, 1925-1940 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780822977704/ ER -