{"id":14048,"date":"2011-05-30T02:38:51","date_gmt":"2011-05-30T02:38:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14048"},"modified":"2011-10-07T00:32:28","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:32:28","slug":"for-the-first-time-blacks-outnumber-whites-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14048","title":{"rendered":"For the first time, blacks outnumber whites in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"

For the first time, blacks outnumber whites in Brazil<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Miami Herald<\/a>
\n2011-05-24<\/p>\n

Taylor Barnes<\/a><\/strong>, Special to the Miami Herald<\/p>\n

Brazilians are no longer reluctant to admit being black or \u2018pardo,\u2019 experts said.<\/em><\/p>\n

RIO DE JANEIRO<\/a>\u2014In the past decade, famously mixed-race Brazilians either became prouder of their African roots, savvier with public policies benefiting people of color or are simply more often darker skinned , depending on how you read the much-debated new analysis of the census here.<\/p>\n

A recently released 2010 survey showed that Brazil became for the first time a \u201cmajority minority\u201d nation, meaning less than half the population now identifies as white.
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\nEvery minority racial group\u2014officially, \u201cblack,\u201d \u201cpardo\u201d (mixed), \u201cyellow\u201d and \u201cindigenous\u201d\u2014grew in absolute numbers since 2000. \u201cWhite\u201d was the only group that shrank in both absolute numbers and percentage, becoming 48 percent of the population from 53 percent 10 years ago.<\/p>\n

Experts say the shift reflects a growing comfort in not calling oneself white in order to prosper in Brazil<\/a> and underscores the growing influence of popular culture. Paula Miranda-Ribeiro<\/a>, a demographer at the Federal University of Minas Gerais<\/a>, said another factor was the increase in bi-racial unions with mixed-race kids.<\/p>\n

While Americans look at race as a question of origin, Brazilians largely go by appearance, so much so that the children of the same parents could mark different census categories, she said…<\/p>\n

…Activists and artists here say they\u2019ve seen a greater mobilization for mixed-race Brazilians to call themselves black or pardo<\/em> in recent years.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe phenomenon I perceive are people getting out of that pressure to whiten themselves, and assuming their blackness,\u201d says visual artist Rosana Paulino<\/a>, whose doctoral work at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a> focused on the representation of blacks in the arts.
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\nShe sees a rising self-esteem on the part of mixed-race Brazilians who stop using middle-ground terms like \u201cmoreninho\u201d (\u201ca little tan\u201d) or \u201cmarrom-bombom\u201d (\u201cbrown chocolate\u201d) and simply call themselves black…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

For the first time, blacks outnumber whites in Brazil Miami Herald 2011-05-24 Taylor Barnes, Special to the Miami Herald Brazilians are no longer reluctant to admit being black or \u2018pardo,\u2019 experts said. RIO DE JANEIRO\u2014In the past decade, famously mixed-race Brazilians either became prouder of their African roots, savvier with public policies benefiting people of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,21,33,125,6,394],"tags":[6470,6472,6473,6471],"class_list":["post-14048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-new-media","category-socialscience","tag-miami-herald","tag-paula-miranda-ribeiro","tag-rosana-paulino","tag-taylor-barnes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}