Date of Award
1-1-2024
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
M.A. in Southern Studies
First Advisor
Marcos A. Mendoza
Second Advisor
Simone P. Delerme
Third Advisor
Catarina Passidomo
School
University of Mississippi
Relational Format
dissertation/thesis
Abstract
Following their defeat in the American Civil War, tens of thousands of American Southerners, many of them former Confederates, fled the United States to seek out new homelands in Latin America. Thousands would set their sights on Brazil, encouraged by the promise of arable land and the prospect of a new society in one of the hemisphere’s last slaveholding societies. Though many of these Confederados returned to the United States after Reconstruction, their influential presence in Brazil has remained a persistent factor. What has been the resulting impact of this nineteenth century Confederate immigration? This thesis volume will argue that Confederate immigration reveals transnational South-South transnational connections through three distinct modalities of interaction and exchange: the historical trajectory of the Confederados from the Southern United States to Brazil, analysis of the Museum of Immigration, and transnational digital worlds. This is accomplished through analysis of archival and museum materials and digital ethnography. In tracing the contours of this movement, this thesis makes significant contributions to Southern Studies, the South in Latin America, and neo-Confederate studies.
Recommended Citation
Conrad, Maximilian Xavier, "DIXIELAND DO SUL: Brazilian Racial Democracy and the Recontextualization of Transnational Confederate Symbols (Vol. 1)" (2024). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2929.
https://egrove.olemiss.edu/etd/2929