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Novas raças, novas doenças: a possibilidade colonizadora por meio da mistura racial em History of Brazil (1810-1819) de Robert Southey

2016; Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Casa de Oswaldo Cruz; Volume: 23; Issue: suppl 1 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1590/s0104-59702016000500002

1678-4758

Flávia Florentino Varella,

History of Medicine and Tropical Health

The possibility that the climate altered the temperament of people who were not native to a given region was a widely held belief even before the discovery of the Americas. Changes in air, temperature, and diet were believed to contribute decisively to whether races degenerated or flourished. In the New World, the black, European, and indigenous races mixed, reconfiguring European diseases. I explore how historian Robert Southey viewed this mixture of races in a positive light, especially the mixture of indigenous and Portuguese blood, resulting in the mameluco. The mamelucos from São Paulo are presented in Southey's History of Brazil as inheriting the Portuguese enterprising spirit with the tireless nature of the indigenous people.