Gilberto Freyre e a intelligentsia salazarista em defesa do Império colonial Português (1951 - 1974)

Abstract

In this paper, I intend to analyze Gilberto Freyre's trajectory within the Salazarist Intelligentsia from 1951 onwards, a time of Salazar's statutory redefinitions of colonial administration. I also reflect upon how Freyre's theoretical model, Lusotropicalism, was appropriated as a key element for the internationalization of the ideological-institutional justification in defense of the maintenance of the Portuguese Colonial Empire.