{"id":15059,"date":"2011-07-22T21:25:46","date_gmt":"2011-07-22T21:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15059"},"modified":"2011-10-07T00:32:27","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T00:32:27","slug":"brazil%e2%80%99s-new-racial-reality-insights-for-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15059","title":{"rendered":"Brazil\u2019s new racial reality: Insights for the U.S.?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.race-talk.org\/?p=7923\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil\u2019s new racial reality: Insights for the U.S.?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.race-talk.org\" target=\"_blank\">Race-Talk<\/a><br \/>\nThe Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity<br \/>\n2011-07-19<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.race-talk.org\/?author=26\" target=\"_blank\">Cheryl Staats<\/a><\/strong>, Research Assistant<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a> has been a long-standing place of interest for many scholars due to its fluid racial categorization that focuses on <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Phenotype\" target=\"_blank\">phenotype<\/a> rather than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=86\" target=\"_blank\">hypodescent<\/a>.\u00a0 With the release of Brazil\u2019s 2010 census data, the newly-minted \u201cminority-majority\u201d country only further piques the interest of many in the U.S. as our country quickly approaches its own \u201cracial tipping point\u201d in approximately 2042.\u00a0 What insights can the U.S. gain from Brazil and its experiences with this demographic transition thus far?\u00a0 While the two countries possess similar yet distinct racial histories, some possible parallels are worth considering.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nNon-white birth rates outpacing those of white women is one of the key factors in the U.S. demographic transition, as twelve states and the District of Columbia already have white populations below 50% among children under age five.\u00a0 Seven additional states are poised to also attain a \u201cminority majority\u201d designation among children within the next decade.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nSimilar to the U.S., one of the drivers behind the numeric rise of nonwhites in Brazil has been the rise of the non-white birth rate.\u00a0 Moreover, experts also cite an increased willingness of Brazilians to self-identify as black or <em>pardo<\/em>, a Brazilian term akin to <em>mestizo<\/em> or mixed race.\u00a0 Among the reasons attributed to this include: a period of economic growth that is helping to dispel associations between poverty and skin color; increased presence of blacks in high-profile positions, including the appointment of a black judge to Brazil\u2019s Supreme Court and the country\u2019s first black actor in a leading telenovela role; and a sense of hope that is permeating the country&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.race-talk.org\/?p=7923\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s new racial reality: Insights for the U.S.? Race-Talk The Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity 2011-07-19 Cheryl Staats, Research Assistant Brazil has been a long-standing place of interest for many scholars due to its fluid racial categorization that focuses on phenotype rather than hypodescent.\u00a0 With the release of Brazil\u2019s 2010 census [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,33,6,394,20],"tags":[6964,6963],"class_list":["post-15059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-census","category-new-media","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-cheryl-staats","tag-race-talk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15059","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=15059"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15059\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}