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  • The Prism of Race: The Politics and Ideology of Affirmative Action in Brazil

    In “The Prism of Race,” David Lehmann explores, theoretically and practically, issues of race, the state, social movements, and civil society, and then goes beyond these themes to ask whether Brazilian politics will forever circumvent the severe problems facing the society by co-optation and by tinkering with unjust structures.

  • Study investigates marks of racism in “interracial families”

    One hundred and twenty-nine years after the abolition of slavery in Brazil, and despite the myth of racial democracy, race-based prejudice is still widespread in Brazilian society – so much so that it can be found even in “interracial families”. This is the conclusion of a study by social psychologist Lia Vainer Schucman.

  • Inclusion Policies and the Future of Racial Relations in Brazil

    Inclusion Policies and the Future of Racial Relations in Brazil The Futures We Want: Global Sociology and the Struggles for a Better World 3rd ISA Forum of Sociology 2016-07-10 through 2016-07-14 Vienna, Austria Tuesday, 2016-07-12, 09:30 CEST (Local Time) Room: Hörsaal 34 Oral Presentation Valter Silvério, Associate Professor of Sociology Universidade Federal de Sao Carlos,…

  • Frantz Fanon’s reception in Brazil

    Frantz Fanon’s reception in Brazil Penser aujourd’hui à partir de Frantz Fanon, Actes du colloque Fanon (Symposium on Frantz Fanon) Université Paris 7 February 2008 Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães, Professor of Sociology University of São Paulo, Brazil Frantz Fanon is a central figure in cultural, post-colonial and African-American studies, whether in the United States, Africa…

  • Room for Debate: Brazil’s Racial Identity Challenge

    Room for Debate: Brazil’s Racial Identity Challenge The New York Times 2012-03-30 Jerry Dávila, Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazilian History University of Illinois Peter Fry, Anthropolgist Melissa Nobles, Arthur and Ruth Sloan Professor of Political Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Micol Seigel, Associate Professor of African-American and African Diaspora Studies Indiana University Yvonne Maggie,…

  • 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…

  • 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,…

  • Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? By G. Reginald Daniel. [Book Review]

    Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and the United States: Converging Paths? By G. Reginald Daniel. [Book Review] Ethnic and Racial Studies Volume 30, Number 6 (November 2007) pages 1167-1181 Antonio Sérgio Alfredo Guimarães Department of Sociology, University of Sao Paulo In his recent comparative study G. Reginald Daniel looks at the convergence in race relations…