{"id":15620,"date":"2011-08-15T03:43:34","date_gmt":"2011-08-15T03:43:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15620"},"modified":"2014-09-21T16:16:48","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T16:16:48","slug":"the-multiple-dimensions-of-racial-mixture-in-rio-de-janeiro-brazil-from-whitening-to-brazilian-negritude","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15620","title":{"rendered":"The multiple dimensions of racial mixture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: from whitening to Brazilian negritude"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2011.589524\" target=\"_blank\">The multiple dimensions of racial mixture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: from whitening to Brazilian negritude<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/loi\/rers20\" target=\"_blank\">Ethnic and Racial Studies<\/a><br \/>\nAvailable online: 2011-08-01<br \/>\n18 pages<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1080\/01419870.2011.589524\" target=\"_blank\">10.1080\/01419870.2011.589524<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Graziella Moraes D. Silva<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Federal University of Rio de Janeiro<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Elisa P. Reis<\/strong>, Professor of Political Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Federal University of Rio de Janeiro<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The notion that racial mixture is a central feature of Latin American societies has been interpreted in different, if not strictly opposite, ways. On the one hand, scholars have presented it as evidence of weaker racial boundaries. On the other, it has been denounced as an expression of the illusion of harmonic racial relations. Relying on 160 interviews with black Brazilians, <strong>we argue that the valorization of racial mixture is an important response to stigmatization, but one that has multiple dimensions and different consequences for the maintenance of racial boundaries.<\/strong> We map out these different dimensions\u2014namely, \u2018whitening\u2019, \u2018Brazilian <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/N%C3%A9gritude\" target=\"_blank\">negritude<\/a><\/em>\u2019, \u2018national identification\u2019 and \u2018non-essentialist racialism\u2019\u2014and discuss how these dimensions are combined in different ways by our interviewees according to various circumstances. Exploring these multiple dimensions, we question any simplistic understanding of racial mixture as the blessing or the curse of Latin American racial dynamics.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/pdf\/10.1080\/01419870.2011.589524\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The multiple dimensions of racial mixture in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil: from whitening to Brazilian negritude Ethnic and Racial Studies Available online: 2011-08-01 18 pages DOI: 10.1080\/01419870.2011.589524 Graziella Moraes D. Silva Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Elisa P. Reis, Professor of Political Sociology Federal University of Rio de Janeiro The notion that racial mixture [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,8,394],"tags":[7197,7198,461,7199],"class_list":["post-15620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-elisa-p-reis","tag-elisa-reis","tag-ethnic-and-racial-studies","tag-graziella-moraes-d-silva"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620","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=15620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}