The Racial Science of Patriotic Primitives: António Mendes Correia in Portuguese Timor

This chapter investigates how race and affect, racialized notions of biological primitivism and nationalistic imageries of affect, could come together into one consequential form of Luso-colonial racial science in the postwar years. I explore Portuguese racial conceptions beyond Luso-tropicalist emphasis on miscegenation, to call attention to the pervading significance of (physical) anthropological research on the "native tribes" of the Portuguese colonial empire.