# Event Details

- **Event Name**: Overvaluation  of Portuguese Influence  on Formation of Brazilian Society
- **Event Start and End Date**: Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm – Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 05:30 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for a presentation by Maria Cristina Dos Santos De Souza, PH.DAbout this EventThis critical discussion of Maria Cristina’s article on Sérgio Buarque de Holanda’s Raízes do Brasil offers a close reading of both the original and revised editions of Holanda’s influential essay, arguing that its account of Brazilian social formation depends on a determinist and organicist overvaluation of Portuguese influence. Although Holanda recognizes African and Indigenous participation, he assigns them a secondary, reinforcing role while treating the Portuguese colonizer as the primary agent shaping Brazilian identity. This approach, the article contends, obscures the sociohistorical construction of identity and marginalizes non-European actors, exposing persistent tensions between sociological method and essentialist reasoning in a foundational text.Why it matters now:Read against contemporary racial politics—especially in the U.S.—the article provides a cautionary framework for recognizing how deterministic narratives operate today. By naturalizing a fixed, “true” national character, such accounts marginalize racialized groups and legitimize exclusion and hierarchy. The discussion will explore how cultural determinism, whether through intellectual history or political rhetoric, forecloses plural futures and justifies unequal power relations.
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/boston/overvaluation-of-portuguese-influence-on-formation-of-brazilian-society/100001983619028913
- **Event Categories**: Art, Theatre
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## Event venue details

- **city**: Boston
- **state**: MA
- **country**: United States
- **location**: 121 Bay State Rd
- **lat**: 42.3504702
- **long**: -71.0989116
- **full address**: 121 Bay State Rd, 121 Bay State Road, Boston, United States

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- **Q**: When and where is Overvaluation  of Portuguese Influence  on Formation of Brazilian Society being held?
  - **A:** Overvaluation  of Portuguese Influence  on Formation of Brazilian Society takes place on Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 04:00 pm to Wed, 25 Mar, 2026 at 05:30 pm at 121 Bay State Rd, 121 Bay State Road, Boston, United States.
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  - **A:** Overvaluation  of Portuguese Influence  on Formation of Brazilian Society is organized by Center for Latin American Studies at Boston University.

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