O negro no futebol brasileiro


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O Negro no Futebol Brasileiro, do jornalista Mario Filho, que empresta o seu nome ao Maracanã, é uma obra conhecida por aplausos unânimes. Mesmo num tema como o abordado, que mostra o indisfarçável racismo contra o negro nos primórdios do futebol brasileiro, o autor conseguiu dar leveza e envolvência ao livro. Muito bem cuidada, com apuro nos detalhes, esta edição reconstituiu o prefácio de Gilberto Freyre à primeira edição, o texto de Édison Carneiro para as orelhas da segunda edição, o de João Máximo para as orelhas da terceira, além do texto da apresentação do editor para essa terceira edição. A edição da Mauad Editora traz um caderno especial com a trajetória de Mario Filho, assinada pelo neto e jornalista Mario Neto, com fotos e perfis de alguns dos primeiros craques negros e mulatos do futebol brasileiro, com o texto assinado pelo historiador Gilberto Agostino. Este caderno chega ao final com a história da imagem da capa, do artista plástico Rebolo, que também foi jogador de futebol, e que mostra, pioneiramente, na arte brasileira uma cena de jogadores em campo: o negro driblando o próprio Rebolo, que se auto-retrata. O texto das orelhas é assinado pelo historiador Francisco Carlos Teixeira da Silva, professor titular da UFRJ, e o prefácio de autoria do cientista político Luis Fernandes, professor na PUC-Rio e UFF, que situa a obra de Mario Filho “no mesmo plano dos grandes textos interpretativos da formação social brasileira, como Casa Grande e Senzala, de Gilberto Freyre, Raízes do Brasil, de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, e Os Donos do Poder, de Raymundo Faoro.”




O Negro no Futebol Brasileiro


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A MAUAD Editora lança a nova edição do maior clássico sobre o futebol no Brasil: O Negro no Futebol Brasileiro, do jornalista Mario Filho, que empresta o seu nome ao maior estádio do mundo, o Maracanã. Esta é a 5a Edição de uma obra conhecida por aplausos unânimes. Retornando ao mercado após nove anos de ausência, esta edição traz um Caderno Especial com a trajetória de Mario Filho, assinada pelo neto e jornalista Mario Neto, com fotos e perfis de alguns dos primeiros craques negros e mulatos do futebol brasileiro, com o texto assinado pelo historiador Gilberto Agostino. Este Caderno chega ao final com a história da imagem da capa, do artista plástico Rebolo, que também foi jogador de futebol, e que mostra pioneiramente na arte brasileira uma cena de jogadores em campo: o negro driblando o próprio Rebolo, que se auto-retrata.Bem cuidada, com apuro nos detalhes – ao ponto de trazer reconstituído, como no original, o prefácio de Gilberto Freyre à primeira edição (de 1947), no qual havia lapsos – (supressões de palavras em dois parágrafos) desde a segunda edição (de 1964), a 5a Edição traz ao público todo o percurso da obra. Assim, nada foi retirado em relação às edições anteriores: além do prefácio de Gilberto Freyre, o texto das orelhas da segunda edição, de Édison Carneiro, o das orelhas da terceira edição (1994), de João Máximo, e mesmo a apresentação do editor da terceira edição podem nela ser encontrados.Objetivando também atingir um público universitário, a MAUAD Editora prepara-se para divulgar esta 5a Edição nas salas de aula, com vistas a levar ao conhecimento da nova geração o estilo magistral de Mario Filho: bem-humorado, objetivo e direto, como um grande contador de histórias. Mesmo num tema como o deste livro, que trata do indisfarçável racismo contra o negro nos primórdios do futebol brasileiro, ele consegue uma leveza e uma envolvência características dos grandes escritores. Esta edição traz o texto de orelhas assinado pelo historiador Francisco Carlos Teixeira Da Silva, professor na UFRJ e idealizador e coordenador do Laboratório de Estudos do Tempo Presente (IFCS/UFRJ), e prefácio do cientista político Luis Fernandes, professor na PUC-Rio e UFF, que situa a obra de Mario Filho “no mesmo plano dos grandes textos interpretativos da formação social brasileira, como Casa Grande e Senzala, de Gilberto Freyre, Raízes do Brasil, de Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, e Os Donos do Poder, de Raymundo Faoro.”




The Country of Football


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Brazil has done much to shape football/soccer, but how has soccer shaped Brazil? Despite the political and social importance of the beautiful game to the country, the subject has hitherto received little attention. This book presents groundbreaking work by historians and researchers from Brazil, the United States, Britain and France, who examine the political significance, in the broadest sense, of the sport in which Brazil has long been a world leader. The authors consider questions such as the relationship between soccer, the workplace and working class culture; the formation of Brazilian national identity; race relations; political and social movements; and the impact of the sport on social mobility. Contributions to the book range in time from the late nineteenth century, when the British first introduced the sport to Brazil, to the present day, as the 'country of soccer' prepares itself to host the 2014 World Cup, painting a vivid picture of the many ways in which soccer exists and functions in Brazil, both on and off the pitch.




Becoming Brazilians


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This book traces the rise and decline of Gilberto Freyre's vision of racial and cultural mixture (mestiçagem - or race mixing) as the defining feature of Brazilian culture in the twentieth century. Eakin traces how mestiçagem moved from a conversation among a small group of intellectuals to become the dominant feature of Brazilian national identity, demonstrating how diverse Brazilians embraced mestiçagem, via popular music, film and television, literature, soccer, and protest movements. The Freyrean vision of the unity of Brazilians built on mestiçagem begins a gradual decline in the 1980s with the emergence of an identity politics stressing racial differences and multiculturalism. The book combines intellectual history, sociological and anthropological field work, political science, and cultural studies for a wide-ranging analysis of how Brazilians - across social classes - became Brazilians.




Football and Social Sciences in Brazil


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This book presents a kaleidoscopic view of the multidisciplinary field of research developed within Brazilian social sciences to study football as a major cultural and social phenomenon in the country. As a contributed volume, it brings together chapters authored by researchers from different disciplines, such as sociology, anthropology, political science, history, geography, economy, communication studies and physical education, who contributed to make Brazilian football a multifaceted object of study for the human and social sciences. The book is divided in four parts. The first two parts are dedicated to the "classic" areas, in which the best known research lines are concentrated: part one focuses on politics and history, while part two is dedicated to sociology and anthropology. The third part brings together studies from other four different areas: communication studies, geography, economy and physical education. The fourth part is organized not by disciplines, but around transversal themes, such as gender, violence, fans and racism. The varied approaches and different interpretations brought together in this book seek to provide an overview of the fertile academic debate that has stimulated the renewal of scientific research on football in Brazil, which makes Football and Social Sciences in Brazil a useful resource for researchers from different disciplines within the human and social sciences interested in the study of football as major cultural and social phenomenon all over the world.




Globalised Football


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When studying the social phenomena in and around football, five major aspects of globalisation processes become evident: international migration, the global flow of capital, the syncretistic nature of tradition and modernity in contemporary culture, new experiences of time and space and the revolution in information technologies. In an exploration of these themes the collection provides insight into academic studies of football in Portugal, Germany, England, Spain, Brazil, Angola, Mozambique, China, Japan, South Korea, Russia and the USA. At examining football-related phenomena under the headings of nations and migration, myths and business, the city and the dream, it shows how modernised football itself is object and subject in processes of both neo-liberal globalisation and counter hegemonic globalisation. While the contributions highlight characteristics of particular local and national contexts, the volume focuses on global centre-periphery-relations and migration trajectories of football professionals by analysing recent developments in post-colonial Portuguese speaking areas: The high ranking of "Portuguese football" not only serves in national(ist) discourses or in order to emancipate the country from a marginal position, it also turns Portugal into a football-talent exporter, confronting it partly with the same ambiguous consequences as Brazil and the African countries, who "lose" their football talents to the European centre. The receiving countries, again, include Portugal. This book was previously published as a special issue of Soccer in Society




Advertising and Consumption


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This book argues for the study of consumption and its relationship with media images, particularly advertising, from a cultural perspective. Focused on Brazil, it draws on decades of research by the author and engages with theory and concepts from a range of classic anthropological works. The chapters examine how advertising professionals view their craft, the resistance to capitalism amongst native Brazilians, images of women and their bodies in magazines, and the case of the first soccer player to become a national media celebrity. Rocha supports the study of consumption as a classification system that materializes culture and creates relations between people and goods. The book presents advertising as a mode of magical thinking that mediates the passage from the machine-driven sphere of production to the humanized sphere of consumption, converting meaningless impersonal things into goods that have name, origin, identity and purpose. It will be of interest to anthropologists, sociologists and others working on advertising, marketing, communications, and consumer research.




Football and the Boundaries of History


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The essays in this volume use football to create a dialogue between history and other disciplines, including art criticism, philosophy, and political science. The study of football provides fertile ground for interdisciplinary initiatives and this volume explores the disciplinary boundaries that are shifting “beneath our feet.” Traditional disciplines in the humanities and social sciences have come to embrace diverse research methodologies and the increased scholarly attention to football over the past decade reflects both the startling popularity of the sport and the trends in historical scholarship that have been termed the “cultural,” “interpretive,” or “linguistic” turns. This volume includes work on gender, sexuality, and ethnicity, which have challenged disciplinary fault-lines.




Luso-Tropicalism and Its Discontents


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Modern perceptions of race across much of the Global South are indebted to the Brazilian social scientist Gilberto Freyre, who in works such as The Masters and the Slaves claimed that Portuguese colonialism produced exceptionally benign and tolerant race relations. This volume radically reinterprets Freyre’s Luso-tropicalist arguments and critically engages with the historical complexity of racial concepts and practices in the Portuguese-speaking world. Encompassing Brazil as well as Portuguese-speaking societies in Africa, Asia, and even Portugal itself, it places an interdisciplinary group of scholars in conversation to challenge the conventional understanding of twentieth-century racialization, proffering new insights into such controversial topics as human plasticity, racial amalgamation, and the tropes and proxies of whiteness.




Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration


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Estimated participation figures of almost 30 million worldwide make soccer the most prominent team sport amongst girls and women. However, making a living as a female player is only deemed possible in approximately 20 out of around 150 FIFA-listed women’s soccer countries. This has led to a situation where highly skilled sports women have to migrate from their homelands to find employment with a professional team. Women, Soccer and Transnational Migration represents a substantial contribution to our knowledge on the development of women’s soccer, to research into sports labor migration and sport and globalization more broadly. The book consists of three parts. Firstly, it provides an overview and an analysis of migration in women's soccer from its earliest forms until now. It then presents several case studies, delivered by scholars from around the world, illustrating how female players are increasingly being drawn to the USA, Northern Europe and Scandinavia due to their ability to support professional leagues. Finally, all the themes and patterns of these case studies are drawn together to be able to compare and contrast migration in women's soccer to sport migration and globalization more broadly. This study not only makes recommendations for future researchers, but may also serve as an important source of information for those in charge of policy. As such, it is essential reading for students, lecturers, researchers and practitioners involved in sports migration and women's sport.