{"id":29572,"date":"2013-03-15T18:51:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:51:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=29572"},"modified":"2013-03-15T18:51:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T18:51:09","slug":"in-brazil-a-mix-of-racial-openness-and-exclusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=29572","title":{"rendered":"In Brazil, a mix of racial openness and exclusion"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Brazil, a mix of racial openness and exclusion<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nordonia Hills News-Leader<\/a>
\nKent, Ohio
\n2013-03-14<\/p>\n

Jenny Barchfield<\/strong>
\nAssociated Press<\/em><\/p>\n

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Many Brazilians cast their country as racial democracy<\/a> where people of different groups long have intermarried, resulting in a large mixed-race population.<\/strong> But you need only turn on the TV, open the newspaper or stroll down the street to see clear evidence of segregation.
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\nIn Brazil, whites are at the top of the social pyramid, dominating professions of wealth, prestige and power. Dark-skinned people are at the bottom of the heap, left to clean up after others and take care of their children and the elderly.
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\nThe 2010 census marked the first time in which black and mixed-race people officially outnumbered whites, weighing in at just over 50 percent, compared with 47 percent for whites. Researchers suggest that Brazil actually may have been a majority-nonwhite country for some time, with the latest statistics reflecting a decreased social stigma that makes it easier for nonwhites to report their actual race.
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\nIt is a mix of anomalies in Brazil that offers lessons to a United States now in transition to a “majority-minority” nation: how racial integration in social life does not always translate to economic equality, and how centuries of racial mixing are no guaranteed route to a colorblind society…<\/p>\n

…Nubia de Lima, a 29-year-old black producer for Globo television network, said she experiences racism on a daily basis, in the reactions and comments of strangers who are constantly taking her for a maid, a nanny or a cook, despite her flair for fashion and pricey wardrobe.
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\n“People aren’t used to seeing black people in positions of power,” she said. “It doesn’t exist. They see you are black and naturally assume that you live in a favela (hillside slum) and you work as a housekeeper.”…<\/p>\n

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