Dva prostory, dva časy: rasová utopie Euclidese da Cunhy
Two spaces, two eras: racial utopia of Euclides da Cunha

Summary/Abstract: The article overviews the genesis of the Brazilian War of Canudos and tries to shed some light upon Euclides da Cunha's way of fighting the scientific racism that condemned Brasil as a country of unbounded miscigenation. Starting from Gumplowitz's theory of „historic race“, Euclides da Cunha shows that the autochtonous inhabitants of sertao, separated from the coast as it was, actually did not form a hybrid and unstable race with Portuguese colonists, but a “living rock of Brazilian race”.

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