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  • Beyond Confronting the Myth of Racial Democracy: The Role of Afro-Brazilian Women Scholars and Activists

    Beyond Confronting the Myth of Racial Democracy: The Role of Afro-Brazilian Women Scholars and Activists Gettysburg College Faculty Publications Paper 1 (November 2007) 55 pages Nathalie Lebon, Assistant Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania This paper offers a synopsis of the current scholarship mapping the social and economic exclusion of…

  • Race, Nation, And Cultural Identity In Brazil (AN200)

    Race, Nation, And Cultural Identity In Brazil (AN200) IES Abroad Chicago, Illinois Program(s): Rio de Janeiro – Study Brazil Terms offered: Fall, Spring Enrique Larreta, Director of the Institute of Cultural Pluralism Candido Mendes University The main focus of the course is the construction of national identity in modern Brazil, exploring the different processes that…

  • Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics

    Gilberto Freyre: Social Theory in the Tropics Peter Lang 2008 261 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-906165-09-3 Softcover ISBN: 978-1-906165-04-8 Peter Burke University of Cambridge Maria Lúcia G. Pallares-Burke Centre for Latin American Studies University of Cambridge Gilberto Freyre was arguably the most famous intellectual of twentieth-century Latin America. He was active as a sociologist, a historian,…

  • The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870–1920)

    The Race to Progress: Census Taking and Nation Making in Brazil (1870–1920) Hispanic American Historical Review Volume 89, Number 3 (2009) pages 435-470 DOI: 10.1215/00182168-2009-002 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison From the mid-nineteenth century, central statistics agencies contributed to nation-state building through their dual mission of producing statistical description and…

  • The Politics of Samba

    The Politics of Samba Georgetown Journal of International Affairs Volume 2, Number 2 (Summer/Fall 2001) Bruce Gilman Samba, which was created in its present form in the 1910s, yet whose roots reach back much farther and tie Brazil to the African continent, has played an integral part in Brazil’s conceptualization as a nation. Originally despised…

  • Barbosa made Brazil’s first black Supreme Court leader

    Barbosa made Brazil’s first black Supreme Court leader BBC News 2012-10-10 The judge overseeing a major corruption trial in Brazil has been appointed president of the Supreme Court, the first black person to hold the post. Judge Joaquim Barbosa, who was born into a poor family, has been praised for his judicial independence. He will…

  • Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities

    Brazil Enacts Affirmative Action Law for Universities The New York Times 2012-08-30 Simon Romero, Brazil Bureau Chief RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil’s government has enacted one of the Western Hemisphere’s most sweeping affirmative action laws, requiring public universities to reserve half of their admission spots for the largely poor students in the nation’s public schools…

  • Group Dominance and the Myth of Racial Democracy: Antiracism Attitudes in Brazil

    Group dominance perspectives contend that ideologies are central to the production and reproduction of racial oppression by their negative affect on attitudes toward antiracism initiatives. The Brazilian myth of racial democracy frequently is framed in this light, evoked as a racist ideology to explain an apparent lack of confrontation of racial inequality.

  • Fact and Myth: Discovering a Racial Problem in Brazil

    This paper examines prevalent attitudes towards race in Brazil’s mutiracial society. The author notes that, while there is a considerable literature on slavery and the struggle for abolition, relatively little work has been done on race in Brazil today even though color continues to correlate highly with social stratification.

  • The Dialogue About “Racial Democracy” Among African-American and Afro-Brazilian Literatures

    The Dialogue About “Racial Democracy” Among African-American and Afro-Brazilian Literatures University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2008 262 pages Isabel Cristina Rodrigues Ferreira A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of…