{"id":37419,"date":"2014-09-19T21:36:39","date_gmt":"2014-09-19T21:36:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37419"},"modified":"2014-09-21T16:27:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-21T16:27:35","slug":"guest-column-brazils-solution-on-race-relations-differs-from-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37419","title":{"rendered":"GUEST COLUMN: Brazil’s solution on race relations differs from U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"

GUEST COLUMN: Brazil’s solution on race relations differs from U.S.<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

The Tuscaloosa News<\/a>
\nTuscaloosa, Alabama
\n2014-09-13<\/p>\n

Larry Clayton<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of History Emeritus
\nUniversity of Alabama<\/em><\/p>\n

I had a friend from the Dominican Republic<\/a> who came to the University of Alabama and Stillman College on a joint Fulbright appointment years ago. He was a well-known and respected poet and writer in his own land and, after a few months, he remarked to me, \u201cLarry, I didn’t realize I was a black until I came to this country!\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

The question of race, such a painful and rancorous illness in American society, has not played out the same in other countries with similar historical backgrounds.<\/p>\n

A few years ago, Carl Degler<\/a> wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning study titled \u201cNeither Black nor White: Slavery and Race Relations in Brazil and the United States<\/a>.\u201d His theme was summarized in the phrase the \u201cmulatto escape hatch<\/a>.\u201d Degler compared the role of race in the histories of Brazil and the U.S.<\/p>\n

Degler was curious: Why was Brazil thought to be a \u201cracial democracy<\/a>\u201d of sorts, while the United States was fighting its way out of segregation? Both countries had had large African slave populations \u2014 Brazil’s much larger than America’s \u2014 both had emancipated the slaves in the 19th century, both were functioning republics and both were colonized by European settlers. So, why such different racial trajectories?<\/p>\n

The difference was the \u201cmulatto escape hatch,\u201d or the ability of people of mixed races in Brazil to rise up and integrate across Brazilian society without their color or background being held against them…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

GUEST COLUMN: Brazil’s solution on race relations differs from U.S. The Tuscaloosa News Tuscaloosa, Alabama 2014-09-13 Larry Clayton, Professor of History Emeritus University of Alabama I had a friend from the Dominican Republic who came to the University of Alabama and Stillman College on a joint Fulbright appointment years ago. He was a well-known and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,459,8,394,20],"tags":[17912,17913,17914,7765,17915],"class_list":["post-37419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-history","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-larry-clayton","tag-lawrence-a-clayton","tag-lawrence-clayton","tag-the-tuscaloosa-news","tag-tuscaloosa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37419","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=37419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37419\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}