Abstract

ROSA, Alexandre Machado  and  NUNES, Everardo Duarte. Revisiting the controversy over race, eugenics and Physical Education in the work of Fernando de Azevedo: a new view on miscegenation and its role in building a nation. Cad. Hist. Educ. [online]. 2022, vol.21, e122.  Epub Sep 13, 2022. ISSN 1982-7806.  https://doi.org/10.14393/che-v21-2022-122.

Within the controversial reading on the relationship between Fernando de Azevedo, eugenics, and the institutionalization of Physical Education, this article revisits and analyzes whether his ideas are associated with a eugenic and racist nation project, seeking to understand the relationship between the myth of social regeneration through Physical Education, school education and sanitary hygiene. Thus, I used a bibliographic review to investigate how the theme race is approached mainly in the works On Physical Education (first edition of 1920 and third edition of 1964) and A Cultura Brasileira (1960), written by Fernando de Azevedo in different times and contradictory political contexts that are situated in phases that denote clashes, approximations, and distances between intellectuals linked to the social and scientific thoughts in the First Brazilian Republic (1889-1930).

Keywords : Education; Physical Education; Eugenics.

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