{"id":36815,"date":"2014-07-10T16:33:03","date_gmt":"2014-07-10T16:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=36815"},"modified":"2016-10-06T02:26:33","modified_gmt":"2016-10-06T02:26:33","slug":"the-racist-face-of-brazils-miscegenation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=36815","title":{"rendered":"The racist face of Brazil\u2019s miscegenation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\/2013\/05\/22\/the-racist-face-of-brazils-miscegenation\/\" target=\"_blank\">The racist face of Brazil\u2019s miscegenation<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\" target=\"_blank\">Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent<\/a><br \/>\n2013-05-22<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.gravatar.com\/jaridars\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jarid Arraes<\/strong><\/a><br \/>\n<em>Cariri, Cear\u00e1, Brasil<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=450\" target=\"_blank\">miscegenation<\/a> in Brazil is often oversimplified and romanticized. It is not uncommon to hear that Brazil is a <em>mesti\u00e7o<\/em> (mixed race) and plural country and, consequently, all its inhabitants had their ethnicity inevitably mixed at some point in their ancestry. But under the axiom of a mixed country hides a violent and racist reality: the generalization of whiteness in a predominantly black country.<\/p>\n<p>If all Brazilians are mixed and have black and Indian blood in their veins, why are many people reluctant to recognize their own ancestry?&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/blackwomenofbrazil.co\/2013\/05\/22\/the-racist-face-of-brazils-miscegenation\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The racist face of Brazil\u2019s miscegenation Black Women of Brazil: The site dedicated to Brazilian women of African descent 2013-05-22 Jarid Arraes Cariri, Cear\u00e1, Brasil The issue of miscegenation in Brazil is often oversimplified and romanticized. It is not uncommon to hear that Brazil is a mesti\u00e7o (mixed race) and plural country and, consequently, all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,83,21,459,8,394],"tags":[17123,17576],"class_list":["post-36815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-black-women-of-brazil","tag-jarid-arraes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36815","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=36815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49328,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36815\/revisions\/49328"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}