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  • Facts of Blackness: Brazil is not Quite the United States… and Racial Politics in Brazil?

    Facts of Blackness: Brazil is not Quite the United States… and Racial Politics in Brazil? Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture Volume 4, Issue 2, 1998 pages 201-234 DOI: 10.1080/13504639851807 Denise Ferreira Da Silva, Professor in Ethics Queen Mary University of London Studies of racial subordination in Brazil usually stress…

  • Educational Inequality by Race in Brazil, 1982–2007: Structural Changes and Shifts in Racial Classification

    Educational Inequality by Race in Brazil, 1982–2007: Structural Changes and Shifts in Racial Classification Demography Volume 49, Number 1 (February 2012) pages 337-358 DOI: 10.1007/s13524-011-0084-6 Leticia J. Marteleto, Assistant Professor of Sociology Population Research Center University of Texas, Austin Despite overwhelming improvements in educational levels and opportunity during the past three decades, educational disadvantages associated…

  • Educational Disadvantages Associated with Race Still Persist in Brazil Despite Improvements, New Study Shows

    Educational Disadvantages Associated with Race Still Persist in Brazil Despite Improvements, New Study Shows University of Texas, Austin Department of Sociology 2012-01-19 Despite notable improvements in educational levels and opportunity during the past three decades, disadvantages associated with race still persist in Brazil, according to new research at The University of Texas at Austin. Although…

  • Racial Classification Regarding Semen Donor Selection in Brazil

    Racial Classification Regarding Semen Donor Selection in Brazil Developing World Bioethics Volume 7, Issue 2 (August 2007) pages 104–111 DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-8847.2007.00192.x Rosely Gomes Costa, Pós-doutorado em Ciências Sociais pela Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) e pela Universidade Autônoma de Barcelona (Espanha) Brazil has not yet approved legislation on assisted reproduction. For this reason, clinics, hospitals…

  • Interethnic diversity of NAT2 polymorphisms in Brazilian admixed populations

    Interethnic diversity of NAT2 polymorphisms in Brazilian admixed populations BMC Genetics Volume 11, Number 1 (2010-10-05) pages 87-93 DOI: 10.1186/1471-2156-11-87 Jhimmy Talbot Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e Epidemiologia Molecular Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz Luiz Alexandre V. Magno Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e Epidemiologia Molecular Universidade Estadual de Santa Cruz Cinthia VN Santana Laboratório de Farmacogenômica e…

  • Performing Mulata-ness: The Politics of Cultural Authenticity and Sexuality among Carioca Samba Dancers

    Performing Mulata-ness: The Politics of Cultural Authenticity and Sexuality among Carioca Samba Dancers Latin American Perspectives Volume 39, Number 2 (March 2012) pages 113-133 DOI: 10.1177/0094582X11430049 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada In Rio de Janeiro, mulatas—brown-skinned women of mixed racial descent who dance the samba in Carnival parades…

  • Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality

    Brazil in black and white? Race categories, the census, and the study of inequality Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 35, Number 8, August 2012 pages 1466-1483 DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.607503 Mara Loveman, Associate Professor of Sociology University of Wisconsin, Madison Jeronimo O. Muniz, Assistant Professor of Sociology Federal University of Minas Gerais Stanley R. Bailey, Associate Professor…

  • Racism and Ethnic Relations in the Portuguese-Speaking World

    The book covers the gamut of inter-ethnic experiences throughout the Portuguese-speaking world, from the sixteenth century to the present day, integrating contributions from history, sociology, social psychology, anthropology, literary, and cultural studies. It offers a radical updating of both empirical data and methodologies, and aims to contribute to current debates on racism and ethnic relations…

  • Gene Flow from White into Negro Populations in Brazil

    Gene Flow from White into Negro Populations in Brazil American Journal of Human Genetics Volume 9, Number 4 (December 1957) pages 299–309 P. H. Saldanha Department of General Biology University of Sao Paulo, Brazil GLASS AND Li (1953) have introduced a statistical model that allows calculations to be made, not only of the intermixture between…

  • The Brazilian system of racial classification

    The Brazilian system of racial classification Ethnic and Racial Studies Published Online: 2011-12-05 6 pages DOI: 10.1080/01419870.2011.632022 Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Professor of Sociology Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil Michael Banton’s text belongs to the long tradition of European social sciences which rejects the conceptual use of the lerm ‘race’ in sociological analyses. His work…