SUGAR AND COFFEE: THE AMBIGUITY OF RAÍZES DO BRASIL

Abstract

This study primary goal is to discuss the political dimension of Raízes do Brasil (Roots of Brazil), a subject of recent controversy. Such issue is approached through a brief reconstruction of the trajectory of Sérgio Buarque de Holanda, which might have had shaped his position. We understand that Sérgio Buarque did not fix a univocal political message in Raízes do Brasil, suggesting that the work contains a central argument with an ambiguous outcome whose genesis would be related to the ambivalence of the social and geographic origin of the author.

Keywords:
Intelectuals; Family Origin; Sérgio Buarque De Holanda; Trajectory; Raízes Do Brasil