Gustavo Barroso

Gustavo Barroso
Barroso in 1958
Born(1888-12-29)29 December 1888
Fortaleza, Ceará, Empire of Brazil
Died3 December 1959(1959-12-03) (aged 70)
Rio de Janeiro, Federal District, Brazil
Alma materFederal University of Rio de Janeiro Faculty of Law
OccupationsLawyer, professor, politician, museologist, chronicler, essayist, novelist, translator
Notable workBrasil, Colônia de Banqueiros
Political partyBrazilian Integralist Action
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Gustavo Adolfo Luiz Dodt da Cunha Barroso (29 December 1888 – 3 December 1959) was a Brazilian lawyer, historian, writer and politician associated with Brazilian Integralism. He was also known by the pseudonym João do Norte. Being considered a master of Brazilian folklore, he was the first director of the National Historical Museum and one of the leaders of the Brazilian Integralist Action, being one of its most prominent ideologists.

Barroso is considered the most anti-Semitic Brazilian intellectual, whose ideas were close to those of Nazi theorists. A significant portion of the historiography emphasizes that Barroso’s antisemitism was framed not in racial terms, but as a moral concern. There are also scholars who affirm that he manifested traditional Catholic forms of antisemitism. Barroso explicitly rejected racial interpretations. He positioned himself as an anti-racist writer fighting what he viewed as jewish racism.

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