Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Tag: Rio de Janeiro
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The book, “The Politics of Blackness: Racial Identity and Political Behavior in Contemporary Brazil” uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.
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This book uses an intersectional approach to analyze the impact of the experience of race on Afro-Brazilian political behavior in the cities of Salvador, São Paulo, and Rio de Janeiro.
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My book seeks to explain the “comfortable racial contradiction” that surrounds Rio residents with signs of blackness and whiteness but discourages them from describing what they see in racial terms. It’s not a contradiction that is “comfortable” for all, but I argue that this contradiction is surprisingly easy to live within, even as it may…
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“Race and the Brazilian Body” weaves together the experiences of these two groups to explore what the author calls Brazil’s “comfortable racial contradiction,” where embedded structural racism that privileges whiteness exists alongside a deeply held pride in the country’s history of racial mixture and lack of overt racial conflict.
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Whiteness and Miscegenation: Ethnographic Notes, Social Classifications and Silences in the Brazilian Context Studi Culturali Volume VII, Number 1, April 2010 pages 87-102 DOI: 10.1405/31883 Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz Dipartimento di studi linguistici e culturali Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia This article presents some reflections from ongoing research on white upper-middle class men…
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Brazil’s hidden slavery past uncovered at Valongo Wharf BBC News 2014-12-24 Julia Carneiro BBC Brasil, Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro is a city looking to the future. Major development work is underway in the city’s historic port area as it prepares to host the Olympics in 2016. But the construction effort to make all…