{"id":31795,"date":"2013-06-18T01:28:28","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T01:28:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=31795"},"modified":"2013-06-18T01:28:28","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T01:28:28","slug":"facing-up-to-the-failure-of-%e2%80%9cracial-democracy%e2%80%9d-in-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=31795","title":{"rendered":"Facing up to the Failure of \u201cRacial Democracy\u201d in Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/planete-afrique.com\/afro-latino\/racial_democracy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Facing up to the Failure of \u201cRacial Democracy\u201d in Brazil<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/planete-afrique.com\" target=\"_blank\">Plan\u00e8te Afrique: Articles on Africa and the African Diaspora Written by Hishaam Aidi for Various Magazines<\/a><br \/>\nFirst published: 2001-11-28<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/new.sipa.columbia.edu\/faculty\/hishaam-aidi\" target=\"_blank\">Hishaam Aidi<\/a><\/strong>, Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs<br \/>\n<em>Columbia University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What do the Brazilians who call themselves \u201cprieto,\u201d \u201cpardo\u201d and \u201cmestico\u201d have in common? Despite a dizzying array of options when it comes to racial classification, all would be considered \u201cblack\u201d by US standards.<\/p>\n<p>A DNA study by Brazilian scientists found that 80 percent of the population has at least some African ancestry, and fully half of the nation\u2019s 165 million inhabitants consider themselves to be of African descent. Brazil, the largest country in South America, <strong>is home to the largest black population outside of the African continent.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>But despite the widely held and consciously promoted view of Brazil as a \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22166\" target=\"_blank\">racial democracy<\/a>,\u201d vast inequalities exist between the country\u2019s white minority and the mixed and black majority. Afro-Brazilians live in appalling conditions often concentrated in impoverished, crime-ridden <em>favaelas<\/em> (slums) of Brazil\u2019s large urban centers; very few Afro-Brazilians are in government, whether in the legislature, state bureaucracy or the military. Afro-Brazilians have also long been excluded from the civil service and other professions, with newspapers advertising private sector jobs stipulating \u201cgood appearance,\u201d code words for \u201cwhite.\u201d And only two percent of Brazil\u2019s 1.6 million college students are black&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/planete-afrique.com\/afro-latino\/racial_democracy.htm\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Facing up to the Failure of \u201cRacial Democracy\u201d in Brazil Plan\u00e8te Afrique: Articles on Africa and the African Diaspora Written by Hishaam Aidi for Various Magazines First published: 2001-11-28 Hishaam Aidi, Lecturer in Discipline of International and Public Affairs Columbia University What do the Brazilians who call themselves \u201cprieto,\u201d \u201cpardo\u201d and \u201cmestico\u201d have in common? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,8,26,394],"tags":[14950,14951],"class_list":["post-31795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-hishaam-aidi","tag-planete-afrique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31795","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=31795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31795\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}