Barbara Weinstein

Postcolonial Latin America, Brazil, Labor, Slavery and Emancipation, Gender and Sexuality, Race and National identity

Barbara Weinstein is Silver Professor of History and Past President of the American Historical Association. Her publications include The Amazon Rubber Boom, 1850-1920 (1983), For Social Peace in Brazil: Industrialists and the Remaking of the Working Class in São Paulo (1996), and The Color of Modernity: São Paulo and the Making of Race and Nation in Brazil (2015). Her articles have appeared in the American Historical Review, the Hispanic American Historical Review, ILWCH, Journal of Women’s History, Radical History Review, the International Review of Social History, and the Revista Brasileira de História, among others. Her research has received support from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. In 2017-18 she was a fellow at the Cullman Center for Scholars and Writers where she worked on an intellectual biography of the pioneering Latin Americanist Frank Tannenbaum. 

“Sou ainda uma Brazilianist?” Revista Brasileira de História 36, no. 72 (Jul/Dec 2016), pp. 195-217.

“The World is Your Archive? The Challenges of World History as a Field of Research,” in A Companion to World History, Douglas Northrop, ed. (Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell) 2012, pp. 63-78.

“Postcolonial Brazil,” in José C. Moya, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Latin American History (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 2011), pp. 212-256.

“Erecting and Erasing Boundaries: Can We Combine the ‘Indo’ and the ‘Afro’ in Latin American Studies?,” Estudios Interdisciplinares de America Latina y el Caribe v. 19, no. 1, 2008, pp. 129-44.

“Developing Inequality,” American Historical Review v. 113, no. 1 (Feb. 2008), pp. 1-18.

“‘They don’t even look like women workers’: Femininity and Class in Twentieth-Century Latin America,” ILWCH no. 69 (Spring 2006), pp. 161-176.

“Slavery, Citizenship, and National Identity in Brazil and the United States South,” in D. Doyle and M.A. Pamplona, eds. Nationalism in the New World (Athens: Univ. of Georgia Press, 2006), pp. 248-271.

“Inventing the Mulher Paulista: Politics, Rebellion, and the Gendering of Brazilian Regional Identities,” Journal of Women’s History 18, no. 1 (Winter 2006), pp. 22-49. Awarded 2007 LASA-Brazil Essay Prize for best article on Brazil; Honorable Mention, 2007 Conference on Latin American History Prize.

“History without a Cause? Grand Narratives, World History, and the Postcolonial Dilemma,” International Review of Social History 50 (2005), pp. 71-93.