Um Mussolini Moreno: conciliação entre mestiçagem e autoritarismo no Estado Novo

Abstract

The argument of the thesis is about how the Estado Novo, through the official speech, incorporated a hybridist understanding of national identity to its authoritarian nationalist model of the regime. For this, we will deal with two main sources: Cultura Política, the Department of Press and Propaganda (DIP) magazine, and the speeches of President Getúlio Vargas. The main objective will be to analyze how this vocabulary was present in the discursive strategy of the regime through these two platforms. Individuals such as Lourival Fontes (head of DIP) and Almir de Andrade (Editor of Cultura Política) were important mediators between the rhetoric adopted by the regime and the hybridist conception of nation present in Gilberto Freyre. Our results indicate that this official speech showed a great ambiguity regarding the conciliation between authoritarianism and the ethnic amalgamation of Nation. In addition, we demonstrated that there was a strong bond between what the president said and the arguments in the magazine.