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- This article examines the history of race and labor in Beira following the imperial reforms of the 1960s. The reforms promised a new era of Luso-Tropical racial equality, and some workers gained improved conditions following their implementation. Nonetheless, the racial realities of Portuguese rule continued to limit African workers’ possibilities even despite the reforms. At the same time, the rigid emphasis on non-racial rule made it increasingly difficult for workers to openly criticize colonial racism. Using letters from workers published in the newspaper Voz Africana, the article examines how the history of urban labor in Mozambique illuminates the broader history of race and reform in the late colonial Portuguese empire.
- As reformas de 1961 foram inauguradas com o objetivo de estabelecer uma nova política de desenvolvimento e igualdade racial no império Português. O presente artigo analisa os efeitos destas reformas na cidade da Beira. As reformas trouxeram vantagens para alguns trabalhadores; apesar disso, as possibilidades de emprego ficaram, em muitos casos, restritas pelas práticas racializadas da sociedade colonial, ao mesmo tempo que a ideologia de Luso-Tropicalismo fez com que uma crítica aberta de racismo no império Português fosse difícil de fazer. Com base em cartas de trabalhadores publicadas no jornal Voz Africana, o artigo estuda a história do trabalho urbano nas “províncias ultramarinas” para elucidar a história do racismo e reforma na última fase do império português.
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Guthrie, Zachary Kagan,
"Race and Labor in Beira during the Era of Imperial Reform"
(2021).
e-Journal of Portuguese History.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/6h82-w449
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e-Journal of Portuguese History
...The e-Journal of Portuguese History (e-JPH) (ISSN: 1645-6432) is an international peer-reviewed scholarly journal with the objective of providing publication of work on historical subjects, especially those concerning themes and topics of Portuguese history analyzed in a comparative perspective. It …