{"id":22521,"date":"2012-04-17T05:15:30","date_gmt":"2012-04-17T05:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=22521"},"modified":"2017-02-19T22:09:13","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T22:09:13","slug":"in-brazil-i-glimpsed-a-possible-future-in-which-there-is-only-one-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=22521","title":{"rendered":"In Brazil I glimpsed a possible future in which there is only one race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2007\/jul\/12\/comment.brazil\" target=\"_blank\">In Brazil I glimpsed a possible future in which there is only one race<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a><br \/>\n2007-07-11<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.timothygartonash.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Timothy Garton Ash<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>By its own definition it is a mixed country, but extreme poverty and violence occur mainly at one end of the spectrum<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Some time ago, Brazil&#8217;s census takers asked people to describe their skin colour. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=19063\" target=\"_blank\">Brazilians came up with 134 terms<\/a>, including <em>alva-rosada<\/em> (white with pink highlights), <em>branca-sardenta<\/em> (white with brown spots), <em>caf\u00e9 com leite<\/em> (coffee with milk), <em>morena-canelada<\/em> (cinammon-like brunette), <em>polaca<\/em> (Polish), <em>quase-negra<\/em> (almost black) and <em>tostada<\/em> (toasted). This often lighthearted poetry of self-description reflects a reality you see with your own eyes, especially in the poorer parts of Brazil&#8217;s great cities.<\/p>\n<p>Walking round the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cidade_de_Deus_(Rio_de_Janeiro)\" target=\"_blank\">City of God<\/a>, a poor housing estate just outside Rio de Janeiro\u2014and the setting for the film of that name\u2014I saw every possible tint and variety of facial feature, sometimes in the same household. Alba Zaluar, a distinguished anthropologist who has worked for years among the people of the district, told me they make jokes about it between themselves: &#8220;You little whitey&#8221;, &#8220;You little brownie&#8221;, and so on. And those features, with their diversity and admixture, are often beautiful.<\/p>\n<p>Brazil is a country where people celebrate, as a national attribute, the richness of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a>, giving a positive meaning to what is, in its origins, an ugly North American misnomer. There is, however, a nasty underside to this story. &#8220;Racial democracy&#8221; is an established, early 20th-century Brazilian self-image, by contrast with a then still racially segregated United States. Yet the reality even today is that most non-whites are worse off economically, socially and educationally than most whites. And part of this inequality is due to racial discrimination&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire opinion piece <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/commentisfree\/2007\/jul\/12\/comment.brazil\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Brazil I glimpsed a possible future in which there is only one race The Guardian 2007-07-11 Timothy Garton Ash By its own definition it is a mixed country, but extreme poverty and violence occur mainly at one end of the spectrum Some time ago, Brazil&#8217;s census takers asked people to describe their skin colour. 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