{"id":34580,"date":"2013-11-04T02:34:04","date_gmt":"2013-11-04T02:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34580"},"modified":"2013-11-04T02:34:04","modified_gmt":"2013-11-04T02:34:04","slug":"racial-democracy-the-sociological-history-of-a-concept","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34580","title":{"rendered":"Racial Democracy: The Sociological History of a Concept"},"content":{"rendered":"

Racial Democracy: The Sociological History of a Concept<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies<\/a>
\nLemann Institute for Brazilian Studies<\/a>
\nUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
\n2013-02-15<\/p>\n

Antonio Sergio Guimar\u00e3es<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Sociology
\nUniversidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n

I will examine the coining, the uses, and meanings of the expression “racial democracy<\/a>” from the 1930\u2019s onwards including its transformation into an ideal for interracial cohabitation and of political inclusion of Blacks in postwar Brazilian modernity. It will also examine the refusal of the expression by the Black activists of the MNU (Movimento Negro Unificado<\/a>) in the 1970s and their denunciation of its mythical character, as well as its current uses by anthropologists and sociologists engaged in the critique of identity politics.<\/p>\n