Abstract

CABRERA, Olga. Cuba y Brasil: el negro en la intersección de los conceptos. Espiral (Guadalaj.) [online]. 2008, vol.14, n.41, pp.207-219. ISSN 1665-0565.

A study that deals with the relations between the Cuban and Brazilian social histories, as well as the creation and use of explanatory concepts in the anthropological and sociological approaches can help to break away with the vision of essentiality that the concepts are granted in Brazil. Both Cuba and Brazil during the last years of the 19th Century and the early years of the 20th Century, revealed the profound contradictions and the complexity of their societies in the development of the sociological and anthropological studies. In both countries the predominance of the slavery had been supported only a few years earlier. The binomial nation / race presided over the identity constructions in the 19th Century and even in the first years of the 20th Century. In both countries. The conceptual debate along with the analysis of the events of the period can contribute to revealing the history darkened by the preeminence of the approaches subordinated to the hierarchic Western theories that adapted to the identity constructions of the white elites.

Keywords : Cuba; Brasil; nación; raza; etnia.