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  • The right colour

    The right colour Index on Censorship Volume 28, Issue 1, 1999 Special Issue: The Last Empire pages 110-114 DOI: 10.1080/03064229908536514 Daniela Cestarollo Five hundred years after the arrival of the Portuguese, Brazilians are only Just beginning to address the legacy of slavery Brazil is at last revealing its other face. After 500 years of seeking…

  • Brazil’s unfinished battle for racial democracy

    Brazil’s unfinished battle for racial democracy The Economist 2000-04-20 JOSILENE SALES’S career is typical of Brazil’s emerging middle class. She spent seven years working in a petrochemical plant, while studying for a degree at night classes. Having moved to a better paid job in marketing, she saved enough to start her own telemarketing firm in…

  • Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries

    Mixed Indians, Caboclos and Curibocas: Historical Analysis of a Process of Miscegenation; Rio Negro (Brazil), 18th and 19th Centuries Chapter in: Amazon Peasant Societies in a Changing Environment (2009) Springer Part I pages 55-68 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-9283-1_4 Décio de Alencar Guzmán The author analyses the process of mixing (mestiçagem) in the Rio Negro region during the…

  • Colour and Race in Brazil: from whitening to the search for Afrodescent

    Colour and Race in Brazil: from whitening to the search for Afrodescent Paper presented at XVII ISA World Congress of Sociology Gothenburg, Sweden July 2010 21 pages Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Professor of Sociology University of São Paulo Two paradigmatic cases of the building process of post-slavery societies in the Americas were, without a doubt,…

  • Diploma of Whiteness: Race and Social Policy in Brazil, 1917–1945

    Providing a unique historical perspective on how racial attitudes move from elite discourse into people’s lives, “Diploma of Whiteness” shows how public schools promoted the idea that whites were inherently fit and those of African or mixed ancestry were necessarily in need of remedial attention.

  • Tent of Miracles: Myth of racial democracy

    Tent of Miracles: Myth of racial democracy Jump Cut: A Review of Contemporary Media Number 21 (November 1979) pages 20-22 Joan R. Dassin Tent of Miracles (Tenda dos Milagres), says its director Nelson Pereira dos Santos, is a clear direct film that confronts a human question—that of racial discrimination—with great frankness and humor. Completed in…

  • Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation

    Generation, Degeneration, Miscegenation Intstitute for Research on Women IRW Distinguished Lecture Series 2011-12: (De)Generations: Reimagining Communities Rutgers University Thursday, 2012-04-12 (16:00 EDT reception; 16:30 EDT lecture) César Braga-Pinto, Associate Professor of Brazilian Studies Northwestern University Focusing on the cases of Brazil and the U.S., this presentation proposes to articulate the role played by gender representations…

  • Blood Simple: The politics of miscegenation

    The “Negro problem,” wrote Norman Podhoretz in 1963, would not be solved unless color itself disappeared: “and that means not integration, it means assimilation, it means—let the brutal word come out—miscegenation.”

  • Blacks, the white elite, and the politics of nation building: Inter and intraracial relationships in “Cecilia Valdes” and “O Mulato”

    Blacks, the white elite, and the politics of nation building: Inter and intraracial relationships in “Cecilia Valdes” and “O Mulato” Tulane University May 2006 274 pages Publication Number: AAT 3275113 ISBN: 9780549253327 Geoffrey Scott Mitchell A Dissertation Submitted on the Twenty-Sixth day of May 2006 to the Department of Spanish and Portugues in Partial Fulfillment…

  • Identity and Public Policy: Redefining the Concept of Racial Democracy in Brazil

    Identity and Public Policy: Redefining the Concept of Racial Democracy in Brazil Harvard Journal of African American Policy 2011 Edition Krystle Norman Krystle Norman is a recent graduate of the University of Maryland, College Park, where she received her master’s degree in public policy. In 2008, she received her bachelor’s degree from the University of…