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Livros Brancos, Almas Negras: A 'Missão Civilizadora' do colonialismo português c. 1870-1930

2011; Brill; Volume: 24; Issue: 2-3 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1163/187489411x581094

1874-8937

Hugo Gonçalves Dores,

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Book Reviews / Social Sciences and Missions 24 (2011) 284–306 289 Miguel Bandeira Jerónimo, Livros Brancos, Almas Negras: A ‘Missão Civilizadora’ do colonialismo português c. 1870-1930 . Lisbon (Portugal): Imprensa de Ciências Sociais, 2010, 304 pp., Pbk. €20,50, ISBN 978-9726712565. Th e goal of Bandeira’s book is to investigate the ‘civilizing mission’ of the Portuguese colonial empire in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. It does so by focusing on the problem of “ forced indigenous labor ” and “ indigenous education ” , two important issues in the construc- tion of Portuguese colonial legitimization and the defense of