{"id":26235,"date":"2012-10-26T16:52:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-26T16:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=26235"},"modified":"2012-10-26T16:52:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-26T16:52:57","slug":"the-essence-of-this-racial-democracy-myth-is-contained-within","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=26235","title":{"rendered":"The essence of this [racial democracy] myth is contained within allegory common to school texts in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The essence of this [<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22166\" target=\"_blank\">racial democracy<\/a>] myth is contained within an allegory common to school texts in Brazil addressing the origins of that nation\u2019s population: the \u201cfable of three races\u201d (Da Matta 1997). This fable holds that the people of Brazil originated from three formerly discrete racial entities: Europeans, Africans, and Indians. <strong>These \u201craces\u201d subsequently mixed, each contributing to the formation of a uniquely Brazilian population, culturally and biologically fused, whose strength is in its hybridism.<\/strong> Results from a 1998 national survey speak to the embedded nature of this fusion understanding. Brazilians were asked in open-ended format: \u201cOf what ancestry (<em>origem<\/em>) do you consider yourself to be?\u201d To this question, 68 percent responded simply \u201cBrazilian,\u201d with only 3.5 percent replying \u201cindigenous,\u201d 5.8 percent answering \u201cPortuguese,\u201d and 1.4 percent saying \u201cAfrican\u201d) (Schwartzman 1999).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Stanley R. Bailey, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=24944\" target=\"_blank\">Group Dominance and the Myth of Racial Democracy: Antiracism Attitudes in Brazil<\/a>,\u201d <em>American Sociological Review<\/em>, Volume 69, Number 5 (October 2004): 728. <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/000312240406900506\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/000312240406900506<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The essence of this [racial democracy] myth is contained within an allegory common to school texts in Brazil addressing the origins of that nation\u2019s population: the \u201cfable of three races\u201d (Da Matta 1997). This fable holds that the people of Brazil originated from three formerly discrete racial entities: Europeans, Africans, and Indians. These \u201craces\u201d subsequently [&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":[3008,3018,199],"class_list":["post-26235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-american-sociological-review","tag-stanley-bailey","tag-stanley-r-bailey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235","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=26235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26235\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}