{"id":24062,"date":"2013-03-13T18:06:19","date_gmt":"2013-03-13T18:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24062"},"modified":"2016-04-14T17:22:40","modified_gmt":"2016-04-14T17:22:40","slug":"%e2%80%9cinterracial%e2%80%9d-sex-and-racial-democracy-in-brazil-twin-concepts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24062","title":{"rendered":"\u201cInterracial\u201d Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/aa.1999.101.3.563\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cInterracial\u201d Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1548-1433\" target=\"_blank\">American Anthropologist<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/aman.1999.101.issue-3\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 101, Issue 3<\/a> (September 1999)<br \/>\npages 563\u2013578<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1525\/aa.1999.101.3.563\" target=\"_blank\">10.1525\/aa.1999.101.3.563<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/anthropology\/people\/bios\/goldstein.html\" target=\"_blank\">Donna Goldstein<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Anthropology<br \/>\n<em>University of Colorado, Boulder<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22166\" target=\"_blank\">Racial democracy<\/a> is maintained in Brazil through both scholarly and popular discourses that consider \u201cinterracial\u201d sex as proof of Brazil&#8217;s lack of a racial problem. In this article, I scrutinize the discourse that asks, <strong>\u201cHow can we be racist when so many of us are mixed?\u201d<\/strong> I argue that racial discourses are embedded in everyday interactions, but are often codified or masked. \u201cRace\u201d is especially pertinent to sexuality, yet the two have hardly been analyzed together. In fact, it is not the belief in a racial democracy that is at the heart of Brazilian racial hegemony, but rather the belief that Brazil is a color-blind erotic democracy. Using my ethnographic data, I illustrate that \u201crace\u201d is embodied in everyday valuations of sexual attractiveness that are gendered, racialized, and class-oriented in ways that commodity black female bodies and white male economic, racial, and class privilege.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire\u00a0article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.colorado.edu\/anthropology\/people\/bios\/uploads\/Goldstein\/Goldstein1999InterratialSex.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cInterracial\u201d Sex and Racial Democracy in Brazil: Twin Concepts? American Anthropologist Volume 101, Issue 3 (September 1999) pages 563\u2013578 DOI: 10.1525\/aa.1999.101.3.563 Donna Goldstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Colorado, Boulder Racial democracy is maintained in Brazil through both scholarly and popular discourses that consider \u201cinterracial\u201d sex as proof of Brazil&#8217;s lack of a racial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,21,8,394],"tags":[3473,11138],"class_list":["post-24062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-american-anthropologist","tag-donna-goldstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24062","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=24062"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46604,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24062\/revisions\/46604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}