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: Gilberto Freyre
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After slavery, Brazil didn’t institute prohibitions of interracial relationships or draconian racial distinctions, as the United States did. The absence of a rigid racial taxonomy led to an extraordinarily mixed country, with single families composed of multiple skin tones, and far more racial fluidity. “Every Brazilian, even the light-skinned fair-haired one carries about him on…
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The eugenics movement had adherents throughout Latin American countries, as such, Brazil’s participation was simply a sign of the times. The topic is pretty deep and the article below is just a scratch on the surface. Check it out!
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The ideology of racial democracy cast a long shadow over twentieth-century race relations in Brazil. First popularized by influential Brazilian scholar Gilberto Freyre, this theory presumed a level racial playing field that was paradoxically dependent on the whitening of the populace. Rather than helping to drive the country toward a multiracial future, racial democracy shrouded…
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Arguing that race has been the specter that has haunted many of the discussions about Latin American regional and national cultures today, Anke Birkenmaier shows how theories of race and culture in Latin America evolved dramatically in the period between the two world wars.
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Tais Araujo: Fighting Brazil’s Racism Takes More Than A Hashtag teleSUR 2015-11-18 Leopoldo Duarte Taís Araújo’s profile picture on her Twitter account. | Photo: Twitter, @taisdeverdade Most Brazilians take pride in living in a “racial democracy.” According to them Brazil is supposedly a country that evaded racism through the amicable blending of its native, African…
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Historian Broadens Narrative of Slavery in the Americas Fordham News: The Latest From Fordham University 2015-10-16 Patrick Verel Photograph by Patrick Verel In the United States, the Civil War, the Emancipation Proclamation, and the Underground Railroad loom so large in the understandings of slavery that most Americans can almost be excused for thinking it’s a…
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With reference to Brazil, as an old saying has it: “White woman for marriage, mulatto woman for fucking, Negro woman for work,” a saying in which, alongside the social convention of the superiority of the white woman and the inferiority of the black, is to be discerned a sexual preference for the mulatto. Com relação…