{"id":14652,"date":"2011-07-02T03:46:58","date_gmt":"2011-07-02T03:46:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14652"},"modified":"2013-07-12T01:03:41","modified_gmt":"2013-07-12T01:03:41","slug":"hybridity-brazilian-style-samba-carnaval-and-the-myth-of-%e2%80%9cracial-democracy%e2%80%9d-in-rio-de-janeiro-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14652","title":{"rendered":"Where Is the Carnivalesque in Rio&#8217;s Carnaval? Samba, Mulatas and Modernity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/08949460701688775\" target=\"_blank\">Where Is the Carnivalesque in Rio&#8217;s Carnaval? Samba, Mulatas and Modernity<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/gvan20\" target=\"_blank\">Visual Anthropology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/toc\/gvan20\/21\/2\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 21, Issue 2<\/a> (2008)<br \/>\npages 95-111<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/08949460701688775\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/08949460701688775<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wlu.ca\/homepage.php?grp_id=312&amp;f_id=35\" target=\"_blank\">Natasha Pravaz<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article chronicles the historical normalization of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazilian_Carnival\" target=\"_blank\">carnaval<\/a> parades and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Samba\" target=\"_blank\">samba<\/a> performances in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Rio_de_Janeiro\" target=\"_blank\">Rio de Janeiro<\/a>, by looking at the progressive standardization of audiovisual imagery fueled by a nationalistic project based on cultural appropriation. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Afro-Brazilian\" target=\"_blank\">Afro-Brazilian<\/a> performance traditions have come to stand for Brazilian national identity since at least the 1930s, <strong>and practices of visual consumption such as shows <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=451\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>de mulata<\/strong><\/a><strong> (spectacles where Afro-Brazilian women dance the <\/strong><strong>samba<\/strong><strong>) have elevated \u201cmixed-race\u201d women to be icons of Brazilianness.<\/strong> While these practices have de-emphasized grotesque excess in order to fit <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scopophilia\" target=\"_blank\">scopophilic<\/a> drives, they have failed to secure a firm grip over performers&#8217; experiences.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/08949460701688775\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Where Is the Carnivalesque in Rio&#8217;s Carnaval? Samba, Mulatas and Modernity Visual Anthropology Volume 21, Issue 2 (2008) pages 95-111 DOI: 10.1080\/08949460701688775 Natasha Pravaz, Associate Professor of Anthropology Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada This article chronicles the historical normalization of carnaval parades and samba performances in Rio de Janeiro, by looking at the progressive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,21,8,25],"tags":[6724,6727,6728],"class_list":["post-14652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-women","tag-natasha-pravaz","tag-rio-de-janeiro","tag-visual-anthropology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652","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=14652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}