Category: Brazil

  • Some commentators predict that ethnoracial distinctions in the United States will disappear in the twenty-first century.  Perhaps they are right, but there is ample cause to doubt it. And a glance at the history of Brazil, where physical mixing even of blacks and whites has magnificently failed to achieve social justice and to eliminate a…

  • The Slum [O Cortiço] Oxford University Press March 2000 (First published in 1890) 240 pages Paperback ISBN 13: 9780195121872; ISBN 10: 0195121872 Aluísio Azevedo Edited and Translated by David H. Rosenthal Features an informative introduction by translator David H. Rosenthal First published in 1890, and undoubtedly Azevedo’s masterpiece, The Slum is one of the most…

  • (Miscege)nación en O Cortiço Trans: Revue de Littérature Générale et Comparée Issue 5 (2008) 10 pages (24 paragraphs) Brian L. Price, Assistant Professor of Spanish Wake Forest University Written a year after the proclamation of Brazilian independence, O Cortiço by Aluisio Azevedo depicts the demographic composition of the country with a naturalistic sense of detail…

  • The portrait of a nation: Edgard Roquette-Pinto’s study on the Brazilian ‘anthropological types’, 1910-1920 (Retratos da nação: os ‘tipos antropológicos’ do Brasil nos estudos de Edgard Roquette-Pinto, 1910-1920) Boletim do Museu Paraense Emílio Goeldi: Ciências Humanas Volume 7, Number 3 (September/December 2012) pages 645-670 ISSN 1981-8122 DOI: 10.1590/S1981-81222012000300003 Vanderlei Sebastião de Souza Fundação Oswaldo Cruz, Rio…

  • From Colour-Blindness to Recognition? Political Paths to New Identity Practices in Brazil and France Prepared for presentation at the conference: Le multiculturalisme a-t-il un avenir? Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne University 2010-02-26 through 2010-02-27 25 pages Karen Bird, Associate Professor of Political Science McMaster University, Canada Jessica Franklin Department of Political Science McMaster University, Canada For decades,…

  • In Brazil, a mix of racial openness and exclusion Nordonia Hills News-Leader Kent, Ohio 2013-03-14 Jenny Barchfield Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Many Brazilians cast their country as racial democracy where people of different groups long have intermarried, resulting in a large mixed-race population. But you need only turn on the TV, open…

  • Source: National Survey by Household Sample (PNAD). Extracted from: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, “Not black, not white: just the opposite. Culture, race and national identity in Brazil,” Centre for Brazilian Studies, Working Paper Number CBS-47-03, (2003): 5.

  • IU Libraries Film Archive a treasure chest of educational, rare films inside IU Bloomington Weekly news for faculty and staff from the Indiana University Bloomington campus 2013-03-07 Lynn Schoch, Office of the Vice President for International Affairs Many of a certain age—particularly those who were in elementary school in the ’50s and ’60s—will remember 16…

  • “Interracial” Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts? American Anthropologist Volume 101, Issue 3 (September 1999) pages 563–578 DOI: 10.1525/aa.1999.101.3.563 Donna Goldstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Colorado, Boulder Racial democracy is maintained in Brazil through both scholarly and popular discourses that consider “interracial” sex as proof of Brazil’s lack of a racial…

  • Brazil’s affirmative action law offers a huge hand up The Christian Science Monitor 2013-02-12 Sara Miller Llana, Latin America Bureau Chief and Staff Writer Public universities in Brazil will reserve half their seats to provide racial, income, and ethnic diversity – a law that goes the furthest in the Americas in attempting race-based equality. It…