{"id":35259,"date":"2014-01-01T08:01:02","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T08:01:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=35259"},"modified":"2014-01-01T08:03:43","modified_gmt":"2014-01-01T08:03:43","slug":"am-i-supposed-to-be-more-brazilian-than-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=35259","title":{"rendered":"Am I supposed to be more Brazilian than black?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/africasacountry.com\/am-i-supposed-to-be-more-brazilian-than-black\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Am I supposed to be more Brazilian than black?<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/africasacountry.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Africa is a Country<\/a><br \/>\n2013-12-20<\/p>\n<p><strong>Daniel Barbosa<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re always told (by our media, politicians, commentators, etcetera) that Brazil is the most multicultural and multiracial country in the world. That Brazilian <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> gave birth to a unique kind of beauty and that the Brazilian mixture of races and cultures provided us with a complex of interracial relations that has, in some way, harmonized racism, in the name of some greater interracial identity. Now, \u201cthere are no races, but the Brazilian beautiful race,\u201d the Brazilian beauty of the \u201cBrazilian race.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The documentary film, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.racafilme.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ra\u00e7a<\/a>,\u201d explores whether nationality should be considered a race (the \u201cBrazilian race\u201d) and whether black Brazilians should abandon once and for all their racial identity for the sake of some Brazilian unity. The filmmakers also ask whether this question itself isn\u2019t already a consequence of institutional racism. Am I supposed to be more Brazilian than black?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/39905799?title=0&amp;byline=0&amp;portrait=0&amp;color=ffffff\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/39905799\">Ra\u00e7a Trailer HD English<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/user5039887\">Principe Productions<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/africasacountry.com\/am-i-supposed-to-be-more-brazilian-than-black\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am I supposed to be more Brazilian than black? Africa is a Country 2013-12-20 Daniel Barbosa We\u2019re always told (by our media, politicians, commentators, etcetera) that Brazil is the most multicultural and multiracial country in the world. That Brazilian miscegenation gave birth to a unique kind of beauty and that the Brazilian mixture of races [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,8,26,394,842],"tags":[16443,16682,16680,16681,16683],"class_list":["post-35259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-videos","tag-africa-is-a-country","tag-daniel-barbosa","tag-joel-zito","tag-megan-mylan","tag-raca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35259","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=35259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}