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  • Whiter Shades of Pale: “Coloring In” Machado de Assis and Race in Contemporary Brazil

    Whiter Shades of Pale: “Coloring In” Machado de Assis and Race in Contemporary Brazil Latin American Research Review Volume 48, Number 3 (2013) pages 3-24 DOI: 10.1353/lar.2013.0046 Alex Flynn, Lecturer in Anthropology Durham University, Durham, United Kingdom Elena Calvo-González, Professor of Anthropology Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Marcelo Mendes de Souza Department of Comparative Literature…

  • Am I supposed to be more Brazilian than black?

    Am I supposed to be more Brazilian than black? Africa is a Country 2013-12-20 Daniel Barbosa We’re always told (by our media, politicians, commentators, etcetera) that Brazil is the most multicultural and multiracial country in the world. That Brazilian miscegenation gave birth to a unique kind of beauty and that the Brazilian mixture of races…

  • The Symbolic Power of Color: Constructions of Race, Skin-Color, and Identity in Brazil

    The Symbolic Power of Color: Constructions of Race, Skin-Color, and Identity in Brazil Humanity & Society Volume 35, Numbers 1-2 (February 2011) pages 62-99 DOI: 10.1177/016059761103500104 Marcia L. Mikulak, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of North Dakota Some current cultural anthropologists define race as a social construct, yet explorations of the socio-historical constructions that give…

  • A Racial Paradise? Race and Race Mixture in Henry Louis Gates’ Brazil

    A Racial Paradise? Race and Race Mixture in Henry Louis Gates’ Brazil Latin American and Caribbean Ethnic Studies Volume 8,  Issue 1, 2013 pages 88-91 DOI: 10.1080/17442222.2013.768464 Chinyere Osuji, Assistant Professor of Sociology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Camden In this documentary, Henry Louis Gates explores the extent to which the notion of…

  • Brazil in Black and White

    Brazil in Black and White Wide Angle Public Broadcasting Service 2007-09-04 About the Issue As one of the most racially diverse nations in the world, Brazil has long considered itself a colorblind “racial democracy.” But deep disparities in income, education and employment between lighter and darker-skinned Brazilians have prompted a civil rights movement advocating equal…

  • Mirror, Mirror – Who Is that Woman on TV?

    Mirror, Mirror – Who Is that Woman on TV? Inter Press Service News Agency 2013-10-21 Fabiana Frayssinet RIO DE JANEIRO, Oct 21 2013 (IPS) – Carla Vilas Boas is of mixed-race descent – African, European and indigenous – like a majority of the population of Brazil. But she spends hours straightening her hair, trying to…

  • Racial Democracy: The Sociological History of a Concept

    Racial Democracy: The Sociological History of a Concept Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies Lemann Institute for Brazilian Studies University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 2013-02-15 Antonio Sergio Guimarães, Professor of Sociology Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil I will examine the coining, the uses, and meanings of the expression “racial democracy” from the 1930’s onwards including…

  • Review of Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy by Samantha Nogueira Joyce

    Review of Brazilian Telenovelas and the Myth of Racial Democracy by Samantha Nogueira Joyce TriQuarterly: a journal of writing, art, and cultural inquiry from Northwestern University Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois 2013-10-01 Reighan Gillam, Postdoctoral Research Fellow Department of Afroamerican and African Studies University of Michigan Telenovelas, or soap operas, are the main staple of television…

  • ‘Longing for Oneself’: Hybridism and Miscegenation in Colonial and Postcolonial Portugal

    ‘Longing for Oneself’: Hybridism and Miscegenation in Colonial and Postcolonial Portugal Etnográfica Volume VI, Number 1 (2002) pages 181-200 Miguel Vale de Almeida, Professor of Anthropology Instituto Superior de Ciências do Trabalho e da Empresa This essay acknowledges that hybridism, in a troubling reminiscence of the 19th century debate on race and the hybrids is…

  • Unraveling the Concept of Race in Brazil: Issues for the Rio de Janeiro Cooperative Agreement Site

    Unraveling the Concept of Race in Brazil: Issues for the Rio de Janeiro Cooperative Agreement Site Journal of Psychoactive Drugs Volume 30,  Issue 3, 1998  Special Issue: HIV/AIDS Interventions For Out-of-Treatment Drug Users pages 255-260 DOI: 10.1080/02791072.1998.10399700 Hilary L. Surratt The Center for Drug and Alcohol Studies University of Delaware James A. Inciardi (1939-2009), Co-Director…