{"id":19048,"date":"2011-12-16T21:58:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-16T21:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=19048"},"modified":"2011-12-16T21:59:09","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T21:59:09","slug":"indeed-several-studies-prove-there-to-have-been-one-distinguishing-feature-in-portuguese-colonization-the-incentive-towards-miscegenation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=19048","title":{"rendered":"Indeed, several studies prove there to have been one distinguishing feature in Portuguese colonization: the incentive towards miscegenation"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The \u201cmyth of racial democracy\u201d, like the good myth it is, contains distortions in its much vaunted absolute equality, but does contain partial truths in indicating a singularity in the relationship between the races, mainly between races and culture. Indeed, several studies prove there to have been one distinguishing feature in Portuguese colonization: the incentive towards <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>, which was considered a strategic point of the settlement policy. This feature stands out even more when contrasted with other approaches to colonization\u2014such as the American model\u2014in which restrictive policies with regard to legalizing mixed marriages were adopted, or when one perceives similarities with former Portuguese colonies in Africa. But, one cannot forget, that was not just a question of character but a contextual question, connected with the lack of women involved in the Portuguese colonization. In my point of view that is not a question of defining the differences\u2014cultural differences\u2014or transforming it in fossilized parameters. It is not even a question of judging the models positively or negatively, but rather of reflecting on individual modes of discrimination, a Brazilian way of discriminating.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=18887\" target=\"_blank\">Not black, not white: just the opposite. Culture, race and national identity in Brazil<\/a>,\u201d Centre for Brazilian Studies, <em>Working Paper Number CBS-47-03<\/em>, (2003): 5.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The \u201cmyth of racial democracy\u201d, like the good myth it is, contains distortions in its much vaunted absolute equality, but does contain partial truths in indicating a singularity in the relationship between the races, mainly between races and culture. Indeed, several studies prove there to have been one distinguishing feature in Portuguese colonization: the incentive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7005,7002,7004],"class_list":["post-19048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-lilia-m-schwarcz","tag-lilia-moritz-schwarcz","tag-lilia-schwarcz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19048","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=19048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19048\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}