{"id":24909,"date":"2012-08-22T05:24:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T05:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=24909"},"modified":"2012-08-22T15:57:36","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T15:57:36","slug":"racial-democracy-in-brazilian-marriage-toward-a-typology-of-negro-white-intermarriage-in-five-brazilian-communities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=24909","title":{"rendered":"Racial Democracy in Brazilian Marriage: Toward a Typology of Negro-White Intermarriage in Five Brazilian Communities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/3709357\" target=\"_blank\">Racial Democracy in Brazilian Marriage: Toward a Typology of Negro-White Intermarriage in Five Brazilian Communities<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/action\/showPublication?journalCode=amercathsocirevi\" target=\"_blank\">The American Catholic Sociological Review<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.jstor.org\/stable\/i288210\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 21, Number 2<\/a> (Summer, 1960)<br \/>\npages 146-164<\/p>\n<p><strong>Austin J. Staley, O. S. B.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Revised version of paper read at the Twenty-first Annual Convention of the American Catholic Sociological Society, Mundelein College, Chicago, Illinois, August 31-September 2, 1959.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It was <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Robert_E._Park\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Park<\/a> who summed up many observers&#8217; impression of racial democracy in Brazil: &#8220;the people of Brazil have, somehow, regained that paradisaic innocence, with respect to differences of race.&#8221; After completing his study of intermarriage in <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%C3%A3o_Paulo_(state)\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a>, Samuel Lowrie concluded that Brazil is &#8220;one of the largest, if not the largest, melting-pot of the races.&#8221; Brazil has been singled out as the great &#8220;laboratory of the races,&#8221; which offers a &#8220;magnificent field for experimental studies on the contacts of races and cultures.&#8221; No facet of the Brazilian culture has been studied as intensively by sociologists and anthropologists as the area included under race relations.<\/p>\n<p>There is a near consensus of opinion among students of race relations at least on one issue. The crucial problem of race relations is that of Negro-white intermarriage. The common denominator and central nerve of the Negro problem is racial intermarriage. The ultimate case against integration and racial democracy&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Racial Democracy in Brazilian Marriage: Toward a Typology of Negro-White Intermarriage in Five Brazilian Communities The American Catholic Sociological Review Volume 21, Number 2 (Summer, 1960) pages 146-164 Austin J. Staley, O. S. B. Revised version of paper read at the Twenty-first Annual Convention of the American Catholic Sociological Society, Mundelein College, Chicago, Illinois, August [&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":[11599,11600,11601,11598],"class_list":["post-24909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-american-catholic-sociological-review","tag-austin-j-staley","tag-austin-staley","tag-the-american-catholic-sociological-review"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24909","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=24909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24909\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}