Category: Brazil

  • Call at Rio fashion show for more black models Agence France-Presse 2012-01-14 Only a handful of black models sashayed down the catwalk at this week’s Rio fashion show, sparking fresh calls for quotas to ensure greater diversity in a country where more than half of the population is of African ancestry. Some 24 labels displayed…

  • What Does the Brazilian Census Tell Us About Race? Psychology Today 2011-12-06 Jefferson Fish, Ph.D. Problems with Brazilian and U.S. census data on race. In 2010 I posted a six-part series on the U. S. census and race (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). In it I pointed out numerous changes in race categories and…

  • Health in Black and White: Debates on Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities in Brazil University of California, San Diego 2011 320 pages Publication Number: AAT 3458492 ISBN: 9781124703657 Anna Pagano A dissertation submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree Doctor of Philosophy in Anthropology In 2006, the Brazilian Health Council approved a…

  • LATC-GA 2145 – Semester in Latin America: Brazilian Racial Democracy New York University Spring 2012 Sarah Sarzynski, Assistant Professor/Faculty Fellow of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Racial democracy, or the myth of racial democracy, has been a dominant national narrative in Brazil throughout the twentieth century. Gilberto Freyre’s The Masters and the Slaves (1933) is…

  • Comparison between two race/skin color classifications in relation to health-related outcomes in Brazil International Journal for Equity in Health Volume 10, Number 1, (2011-08-25) pages 35-42 DOI: 10.1186/1475-9276-10-35 Claudia Travassos Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde (ICICT/FIOCRUZ), Avenida Brasil Josué Laguardia Instituto de Comunicação e Informação Científica e Tecnológica em Saúde…

  • Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil Duke University Press 1999 232 pages 9 tables Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-2272-6 Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-2252-8 Edited by Michael Hanchard, Professor of Political Science and African American Studies Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland Bringing together U.S. and Brazilian scholars, as well as Afro-Brazilian political activists, Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil represents a…

  • Trans-American Modernisms: Racial Passing, Travel Writing, and Cultural Fantasies of Latin America University of Southern California August 2009 311 pages Ruth Blandón Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY (ENGLISH) In my historical examination of the literary…

  • The Mystery of Samba: Popular Music and National Identity in Brazil University of North Carolina Press February 1999 168 pages 6.125 x 9.25, notes, bibl., index Paper ISBN  978-0-8078-4766-4 Hermano Vianna Edited and translated by John Charles Chasteen, Associate Professor of History University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Samba is Brazil’s “national rhythm,” the foremost…

  • The African Presence in Brazil: Slavery, Resistance, Miscegenation and Strategic Popularization of Afro-Brazilian Music Culture Kalamazoo College 2004 69 pages Danielle Dubois Flax This thesis intends to investigate the history of slavery in Brazil, its effects on the demographic, psychological and political reality of Afro-Brazilians, and most essentially: how representations of Afro-Brazilian music and culture…

  • Obama’s story resonates in racially diverse Brazil Washington Post 2011-03-18 Juan Forero, Staff Writer RIO DE JANEIRO — Brazil is a big gumbo of ethnicities, its people proud of their diversity and confident their country is among the most tolerant of nations. But this country—a leading center of black culture—has never had a black president.…