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  • Black Hole

    Black Hole Brazzill November 1999 Kathleen Bond, Missioner Maryknoll Lay Missioners It is often said that Brazilians live under a racial democracy, meaning that in Brazil miscegenation has created a cultural mélange in which all races are equally valued. Nothing is farther from the truth. During the elections of 1997, Margarida Pereira da Silva was…

  • Racial Democracy in Brazilian Marriage: Toward a Typology of Negro-White Intermarriage in Five Brazilian Communities

    Racial Democracy in Brazilian Marriage: Toward a Typology of Negro-White Intermarriage in Five Brazilian Communities The American Catholic Sociological Review Volume 21, Number 2 (Summer, 1960) pages 146-164 Austin J. Staley, O. S. B. Revised version of paper read at the Twenty-first Annual Convention of the American Catholic Sociological Society, Mundelein College, Chicago, Illinois, August…

  • Obama and the black wave: Deconstructing myths, building strategies

    Obama and the black wave: Deconstructing myths, building strategies Pambazuka News: Pan-African Voices for Freedom and Justice 2009-02-19 (Issue 420) Raquel Luciana de Souza Having closely followed Barack Obama’s electoral success, Raquel Luciana de Souza considers the prospects for a presidential candidate of African descent within the South American giant of Brazil. Scrutinising the historical…

  • Blacks and Whites in São Paulo, Brazil 1888–1988

    For much of the twentieth century Brazil enjoyed an international reputation as a “racial democracy,” but that image has been largely undermined in recent decades by research suggesting the existence of widespread racial inequality.

  • Shifting Discourses: Exploring the Tensions between the Myth of Racial Democracy And the Implementation of Affirmative Action Policies in Brazil

    Shifting Discourses: Exploring the Tensions between the Myth of Racial Democracy And the Implementation of Affirmative Action Policies in Brazil Center for Latin American Social Policy – CLASPO Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies Summer Research Report University of Texas at Austin September 2005 29 pages Raquel Luciana de Souza 1. INTRODUCTION Are the…

  • Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill

    Brazil Approves University Affirmative Action Bill Associated Press 2012-08-08 Stan Lehman San Paulo—The Brazilian Senate has approved an affirmative action bill that reserves half the spots in federal universities for high school graduates of public schools, and distributes them according to the racial makeup of each state. The Senate’s news agency says the bill that…

  • Brazil’s New Racial Politics

    Brazil’s New Racial Politics Lynne Rienner Publishers 2009 251 pages ISBN: 978-1-58826-666-8 Edited by: Bernd Reiter, Associate Professor of Political Science University of South Florida Gladys L. Mitchell (Gladys Mitchell-Walthour), Assistant Professor of Political Science Denison University, Granville, Ohio As the popular myth of racial equality in Brazil crumbles beneath the weight of current grassroots…

  • The aesthetic escape hatch: carnaval, blocos afro and the mutations of baianidade under the signs of globalisation and re-Africanisation

    The aesthetic escape hatch: carnaval, blocos afro and the mutations of baianidade under the signs of globalisation and re-Africanisation Journal of Iberian and Latin American Research Volume 5, Issue 2, 1999 pages 65-98 DOI: 10.1080/13260219.1999.10431798 Piers Armstrong Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil This article examines the notion of baianidade, the cultural cosmovision traditionally associated with…

  • History Counts: A Comparative Analysis of Racial/Color Categorization in US and Brazilian Censuses

    The author presents a comparative analysis of the histories of racial/color categorization in American and Brazilian censuses and shows that racial (and color) categories have appeared in these censuses because of shifting ideas about race and the enduring power of these ideas as organizers of political, economic, and social life in both countries.

  • Measures of “Race” and the Analysis of Racial Inequality in Brazil

    Measures of “Race” and the Analysis of Racial Inequality in Brazil Social Science Research Available online 2012-07-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2012.06.006 Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor of Sociology University of California, Irvine Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Jeronimo O. Muniz, Assistant Professor of Sociology Federal University of Minas Gerais Quantitative analyses of…