{"id":31042,"date":"2013-05-13T02:35:43","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T02:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31042"},"modified":"2015-06-07T21:36:37","modified_gmt":"2015-06-07T21:36:37","slug":"internal-migration-and-ethnic-division-the-case-of-palmas-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31042","title":{"rendered":"Internal migration and ethnic division: the case of Palmas, Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1757-6547.2011.00134.x\" target=\"_blank\">Internal migration and ethnic division: the case of Palmas, Brazil<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/journal\/10.1111\/(ISSN)1757-6547\" target=\"_blank\">The Australian Journal of Anthropology<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/taja.2011.22.issue-2\/issuetoc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 22, Issue 2<\/a>, August 2011<br \/>\npages 203\u2013219<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1111\/j.1757-6547.2011.00134.x\" target=\"_blank\">10.1111\/j.1757-6547.2011.00134.x<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/kuleuven.academia.edu\/MiekeSchrooten\" target=\"_blank\">Mieke Schrooten<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nAnthropology Department<br \/>\n<em>Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Starting from the observation that Brazilian history has led to the development of a very distinct system of race relations, this paper focuses on the (re)creation of ethnic divisions in a new city, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Palmas,_Tocantins\" target=\"_blank\">Palmas<\/a>, the capital of the Brazilian state <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tocantins\" target=\"_blank\">Tocantins<\/a>. Because the city was only founded in 1990, internal migration has heavily influenced the composition of the city\u2019s population. The research shows that residential proximity and interaction between whites and non-whites is largely limited to the poor neighbourhoods of the city. Subtle racism continues to exist, deriving from a way of thinking that naturalises the racial hierarchy. The absence of clearly defined racial categories and the centrality of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> to the Brazilian identity complicate the further dismantling of this racist culture.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/onlinelibrary.wiley.com\/doi\/10.1111\/j.1757-6547.2011.00134.x\/pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Internal migration and ethnic division: the case of Palmas, Brazil The Australian Journal of Anthropology Volume 22, Issue 2, August 2011 pages 203\u2013219 DOI: 10.1111\/j.1757-6547.2011.00134.x Mieke Schrooten Anthropology Department Katholieke Universiteit, Leuven Starting from the observation that Brazilian history has led to the development of a very distinct system of race relations, this paper focuses [&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],"tags":[14667,14666,14669,14668,14670],"class_list":["post-31042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","tag-australian-journal-of-anthropology","tag-mieke-schrooten","tag-palmas","tag-the-australian-journal-of-anthropology","tag-tocantins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31042","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=31042"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31042\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}