Popular Nationalism and the Crisis of National Populism in the Early 1960s

Abstract

In an attempt to examine different social appropriations, we formulate a periodizationthat comprehends the continuities and ruptures in Brazilian national populism. Thefocus is especially on the final phase, at the beginning of the 1960s, marked by anintense appropriation of national populism by the popular classes. This appropriationwould contribute to the deepening of the political crisis, whose end result was the coupof 1964, the starting point for 21 years of military dictatorship.