Globalization, Identity, and Assaults on Equality in the United States

Gilliam, Angela

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“…In 1996, perhaps due to my Fulbright experience, I was invited back to Brasília to present a paper (Gilliam, 2003) at a conference organized by Jesse Souza and the Secretariat of Citizenship Rights of the Ministry of Justice titled Multiculturalism and Racism: Brazil-United States, a Comparison (Souza, 1997). I felt strange in this setting at the University of Brasília even though I had taught there barely 2 years previously.…”

Section: Tumultuous Times and Evolving Personal Worldviewsmentioning

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Transformation of the Self in a Time of Chaos

Gilliam

Perry

2021

Journal of Black Studies

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This essay looks at the intellectual relationship between author Angela Gilliam and Afro-Brazilian scholar-activist Abdias Nascimento. In 1968, both Gilliam and Nascimento were involved in self-examination and reinvention in terms of the positive affirmation of blackness and politicization of racial consciousness. This was a crucial time of social change and political struggle for equal rights to citizenship in Brazil and the United States. It was in her interpreter-translator work for Nascimento that Gilliam’s relationship to cultural and political expressions of peoples of African descent became deepened. This essay is a longer version of the lecture she delivered during the 2015 Abdias Nascimento symposium held at Brown for which she sent to us to include in this special issue before her passing in September 2018.

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Transformation of the Self in a Time of Chaos

Gilliam

Perry

2021

Journal of Black Studies

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“…As a result, rather than the disappearance of race, a ‘pigmentocracy’ emerged focused on color gradations as well as personal characteristics of appearance and background. The focus on the supposed ambiguity of color and the contextual nature with which determinations of status could be made or denied obscured ‘the existence of an extremely efficient system of racial domination’ that was anti-black at its core (Gilliam, 2003; Nascimento, 2007: 19).…”

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The significance of post-racial ideology, black political struggle, and racial literacy for Brazilian anti-racist education policy

Costa

2016

Policy Futures in Education

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This paper furthers current analysis of anti-racist, critical multicultural, and decolonial educational reforms in Brazil through a focus on the significant role played by post-racial ideology, black politics, and racial literacy in policy design and implementation. The paper first details the ways in which post-racial commonsense and anti-black racism have been central to the Brazilian social formation and continue to constitute crucial obstacles to fundamentally reshaping the curriculum, educational institutions, educators' racial literacy, and classroom pedagogies. The article then contends that understanding the politics of race and education in Brazil necessitates acknowledging emergent anti-racist policies and discourses as the product of decades of black political struggle by activists, educators, and community organizations to make racism and racial inequality public issues. In this way, the policy documents and discourses shaping recent educational reforms in Brazil should be understood as political interventions within a particular historical conjuncture and racial formation. Such an analysis reveals contemporary black Brazilian efforts in education as mobilizations that go beyond a 'politics of identity,' recognition and apolitical multiculturalism and towards building more transformative anti-racist and decolonial proposals that directly challenge the nature and effects of anti-black racism in society.

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“…Rather, it contributed to facilitating and justifying a system of pervasive racial and color stratification where whitening and antiblackness remained strong, as elsewhere in Latin America (Golash-Boza and Bonilla- Silva, 2013). Continual emphasis on the positive and convivial aspects of mixture turned a deeply racialized 'pigmentocracy' involving intersections of race with status, class, education, gender, and family origin into a national 'anti-racist' ideology that obscured 'the existence of an extremely efficient system of racial domination' (do Nascimento, 2007: 19; see also Gilliam, 2003;Guimarães, 1995). This shaped a commonsense discourse among Brazilians that 'we are all mixed' while also restricting the expression of non-mestiço forms of racial identity, subjectivity, and experience (Caldwell, 2007: 41-43; see also Dulitzky, 2005).…”

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“…This shaped a commonsense discourse among Brazilians that 'we are all mixed' while also restricting the expression of non-mestiço forms of racial identity, subjectivity, and experience (Caldwell, 2007: 41-43; see also Dulitzky, 2005). Continual emphasis on the positive and convivial aspects of mixture turned a deeply racialized 'pigmentocracy' involving intersections of race with status, class, education, gender, and family origin into a national 'anti-racist' ideology that obscured 'the existence of an extremely efficient system of racial domination' (do Nascimento, 2007: 19; see also Gilliam, 2003;Guimarães, 1995). 4 Denise Ferreira da Silva summarizes the consequence of mixture for the dynamics of racial difference in society, stating that: … the centrality of miscegenation in the national discourse … has precluded racial difference from becoming a prevailing basis for the constitution of culturally distinct groups, but it has sustained a discourse and practices that constitute racial difference as a social category.…”

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Confounding Anti-racism: Mixture, Racial Democracy, and Post-racial Politics in Brazil

Costa

2014

Critical Sociology

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In this article, I analyze the particularity of post-racial ideology in Brazil. I examine recent deployments of mixture and racial democracy as re-articulations of historically hegemonic versions of these ideologies that minimize the problem of racism, deny its systemic nature, and deem ethno-racial policies as threats to achieving nonracial belonging and citizenship. Drawing on scholarship on race and racism from the United States, Brazil, and elsewhere in Latin America, I delineate a relational framework for analyzing the post-racial and apply this framework to three examples of post-racial ideology. Through these examples, I illustrate the problematic logics shaping aggressive investments in the post-racial as future promise to the detriment of addressing the unequal effects racial difference presents for inclusion/exclusion today. The article asserts the necessity of mounting transnational and interdisciplinary theoretical, epistemological, and practical strategies to challenge the ways post-racial ideologies rearticulate racial hierarchies, maintain racial subordination, and delimit social change.

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Globalization, Identity, and Assaults on Equality in the United States

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Transformation of the Self in a Time of Chaos

Transformation of the Self in a Time of Chaos

The significance of post-racial ideology, black political struggle, and racial literacy for Brazilian anti-racist education policy

Confounding Anti-racism: Mixture, Racial Democracy, and Post-racial Politics in Brazil

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