The multiple dimensions of racial mixture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: from whitening to Brazilian negritude

Silva, Graziella Moraes D.; Reis, Elisa

doi:10.1080/01419870.2011.589524

Cited by 33 publications

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“…Twenty-first century discourses on racism in various Latin American countries can now be characterized by varying levels of the recognition of racism as well as public disparagement of discrimination (Bailey, 2009;Da Costa, n.d.;Golash-Boza, 2010;Guimarães, 2006;Silva and Reis, 2012). These have helped reshape societal perceptions of racism and racial diversity to create more critical understandings of mixture and racial democracy that break with historically dominant tendencies to deny racism, embrace mixture as singularly harmonious, and believe in racial democracy as societal fact.…”

Section: Situating Brazil Within Hemispheric Post-racial Ideologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…More and more people see society as both mixed and racist (Joseph, 2013), identify simultaneously with mixture and more specific racial identities like negro (black) (Silva and Reis, 2012), and agree with policies to address racism and discrimination (Bailey, 2009;Hernández, 2012). More and more people see society as both mixed and racist (Joseph, 2013), identify simultaneously with mixture and more specific racial identities like negro (black) (Silva and Reis, 2012), and agree with policies to address racism and discrimination (Bailey, 2009;Hernández, 2012).…”

Section: Situating Brazil Within Hemispheric Post-racial Ideologiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In contrast, in declarations of 'we are all mixed' therefore 'we are not racists', what is assumed to be transcended is that which is denied: racism. Even if, as oppressed, they invest some belief in racial democracy as an ideal (Da Costa, n.d.) or see mixture as a possible anti-racism strategy that blurs boundaries (Silva and Reis, 2012), they have to contend with the immediate and lasting effects of racial difference in their lives. Ahmed 2004: 52-5).…”

Section: 'We Are All Mixed': Declarations Of Mixture As Non-performatmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Situating Brazil Within Hemispheric Post-racial Ideologiesmentioning

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Section: Situating Brazil Within Hemispheric Post-racial Ideologiesmentioning

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Section: 'We Are All Mixed': Declarations Of Mixture As Non-performatmentioning

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

Costa

2014

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“…Like most of Latin America, Brazilians understand themselves to be a nation where everyone is reputedly of mixed-race ancestry~Guimarães 2005; Silva and Reis, 2011;Telles and Sue, 2009!. Like most of Latin America, Brazilians understand themselves to be a nation where everyone is reputedly of mixed-race ancestry~Guimarães 2005; Silva and Reis, 2011;Telles and Sue, 2009!.…”

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Racial ‘Boundary-Policing’

Osuji¹

2013

Du Bois Rev.

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As people who cross racial boundaries in the family formation process, the experiences of interracial couples can actually reveal the nature of racial boundaries within and across societies. I draw on in-depth qualitative interviews with eighty-seven respondents in interracial Black and White couples in Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro to compare perceptions of public stigmatization by outsiders, a term I call "boundary-policing." I find that couples in Los Angeles perceive gendered, Black individuals as perpetrators of this boundary-policing. In Rio de Janeiro, couples perceive regionalized and classed, White perpetrators. These findings suggest that in the United States and Brazil, racial boundaries are intertwined with class and gender boundaries to shape negotiation of boundary-policing in the two contexts. This analysis builds on previous studies of ethnoracial boundaries by showing how individuals reinforce and negotiate them through interpersonal relations. It demonstrates the similarities and differences in the negotiation and reinforcement of racial boundaries in the two sites.

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“…Recentemente, uma linha de pesquisa tem desenvolvido ferramentas para estudar o "fazer e desfazer" das fronteiras etnorraciais no Brasil (Silva, 2016;Silva e Reis, 2012). Embora tenham trazido algumas perceções significativas sobre como as pessoas em diferentes posições sociais compreendem a pertença etnorracial e as suas mudanças atuais, parecem ignorar as dinâmicas institucionais que reforçam, em efeitos de retroação, o papel dessas mudanças.…”

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Fronteiras coletivas e repertórios étnorraciais no Brasil contemporâneo

Oliveira¹

2017

SPP

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The article argues that ethnic policy in Brazil has changed in such a way as to adopt more assertive concepts of group belonging. Analysing affirmative action in favour of Black people in contemporary Brazil, the article discusses three differentiated repertoires with implications for the construction of collective boundaries of an ethnoracial nature, which the author calls dilution, negotiation and salience. These frameworks make it possible to organise the perception of ethnic and racial diversity. The importance of narratives of national identity in the ways these frameworks are structured is highlighted. The article also posits the need to consider the role of the state and its agents in the establishment of the legitimate codifications of belonging.

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The multiple dimensions of racial mixture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: from whitening to Brazilian negritude

Cited by 33 publications

References 22 publications

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

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

Racial ‘Boundary-Policing’

Fronteiras coletivas e repertórios étnorraciais no Brasil contemporâneo

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