Like jazz... the United States according Mario de Andrade's poetry

Abstract This article is dedicated to study the poem “Nova canção de Dixie” written by Mario de Andrade in 1944 and published posthumously. The verses thematize prejudice and racial persecution of blacks in the United States during the 1940s. From the consultation of the correspondence and compared to other writer's texts, as well as the identification of socio- historical episodes of the USA, transfigured in the verses, it was possible to interpret the Brazilian poem that mocks American democracy.