Charles Boxer and the Race Equivoque

• Autor(a) principal: Pina-Cabral, Joao
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10451/47886
• topic: Charles Boxer; Race; Racialization; Racism; Second World War; Hong Kong; Portuguese Empire; History of Empire

CHARLES BOXER’S BOOK Race Relations in the Portuguese Colonial Empire, 1415–1825 was published in 1963 – nearly half a century ago – and has continued to be read to this day. In contrast to his other works, this short essay has found a readership beyond the circle of those who are interested in the history of the Portuguese expansion. In fact, it constitutes a singular piece of analytical debate in the work of a writer who saw himself chiefly as a descriptive historian, bibliophile and archivist and who studiously avoided political posturing. The 1963 essay, however, was conceived from the start in a polemical mode and, according to his biographer, Boxer was perfectly conscious of the impact it would have as he produced it.