Freyre went first to Portugal and then to the US, where he worked as Visiting Professor at Stanford. With the 1930 revolution and the rise of Getúlio Vargas, both Coimbra and Freyre went into exile. After working extensively as a journalist, he was made head of cabinet of the Governor of the State of Pernambuco, Estácio Coimbra. After coming back to Recife in 1923, Freyre spearheaded a handful of writers in a Brazilian regionalist movement. At Columbia, Freyre was a student of the anthropologist Franz Boas. Considered one of the most important sociologists of the 20th century, his best-known work is a sociological treatise named Casa-Grande & Senzala (literally, "The main house and the slave quarters", usually translated into English as The Masters and the Slaves).įreyre had an internationalist academic career, having studied at Baylor University, Texas from the age of eighteen and then at Columbia University, where he got his master's degree under the tutelage of William Shepperd. Gilberto de Mello Freyre KBE (Ma– July 18, 1987) was a Brazilian sociologist, anthropologist, historian, writer, painter, journalist and congressman born in Recife.
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