Deciphering Brazil

What unites us? What makes us Brazilian? What drives us to kill or die for our homeland? These are questions that various authors who set out to study national identity have faced and still discuss today. This book seeks to make a comparative analysis of the proposals for national identity formulated by Oliveira Vianna, Gilberto Freyre and S rgio Buarque de Holanda. These identity proposals based on ethnic criteria had repercussions on the formation of a civic-Brazilian identity. To this end, the books Ra a e Assimila o by Vianna, Casa Grande e Senzala by Freyre and Ra zes do Brasil by Holanda are briefly examined.