Raced Encounters, Sexed Transactions: 'Luso-tropicalism' and the Portuguese Colonial Empire.

Examines the way mixed-race discourses operate in context of readings of Portuguese colonialism. Position of the Portuguese colonialism in comparison to other European colonial models; Study of Portuguese writer Migel Torga's pronouncements on the issue; Reference to the works of Brazilian sociologist Gilberto Freyre; Analysis of different aspects of the personality of the Portuguese colonialists.