{"id":39702,"date":"2015-01-26T02:08:46","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T02:08:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=39702"},"modified":"2017-03-21T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-21T20:04:00","slug":"race-in-contemporary-brazil-from-indifference-to-inequality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=39702","title":{"rendered":"Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psupress.org\/books\/titles\/0-271-01905-0.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Race in Contemporary Brazil: From Indifference to Inequality<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psupress.org\" target=\"_blank\">Pennsylvania State University Press<\/a><br \/>\n1999<br \/>\n304 pages<br \/>\nDimensions: 6 x 9<br \/>\n1 illustration<br \/>\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-271-01905-5<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-271-01906-2<\/p>\n<p>Edited by: <strong>Rebecca Reichmann<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.psupress.org\/books\/titles\/0-271-01905-0.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.psupress.org\/images\/covers\/FullSize\/0-271-01905-0md.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil\u2019s<\/a> traditionally agrarian economy, based initially on slave labor and later on rural labor and tenancy arrangements, established inequalities that have not diminished even with industrial development and urban growth. While fertility and infant mortality rates have dropped significantly and life expectancy has increased during the past thirty years, the gaps in mortality between rich and poor have remained constant. And among the poor of different races, including the 45 percent of Brazil\u2019s population identified as <em>preto<\/em> (\u201cblack\u201d) or <em>pardo<\/em> (\u201cbrown\u201d) in the official census, persistent inequalities cannot be explained by the shortcomings of national economic development or failure of the \u201cmodernization\u201d process.<\/p>\n<p>Reichmann assembles the most important work of Brazilians writing today on contemporary racial dynamics in policy-relevant areas: the construction of race and color classification systems, access to education, employment and health, racial inequalities in the judiciary and politics, and black women\u2019s status and roles. Despite these glaring social inequalities, racial discrimination in Brazil is poorly understood, both within and outside Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>The still-widespread notion of harmonious \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=22166\" target=\"_blank\">racial democracy<\/a>\u201d in Brazil was first articulated by anthropologist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Gilberto_Freyre\" target=\"_blank\">Gilberto Freyre<\/a> in the 1930s and was subsequently reinforced by the popular media, social observers, and scholars. By giving voice to Brazilians\u2019 own interpretations of race, this volume represents an essential contribution to the increasingly international debates about the African diaspora and comparative constructions of race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil\u2019s traditionally agrarian economy, based initially on slave labor and later on rural labor and tenancy arrangements, established inequalities that have not diminished even with industrial development and urban growth. While fertility and infant mortality rates have dropped significantly and life expectancy has increased during the past thirty years, the gaps in mortality between rich and poor have remained constant.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,1649,11,83,21,33,1467,8,26,394,25],"tags":[8369,13716,19164,19165],"class_list":["post-39702","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthologies","category-anthropology","category-books","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-census","category-law","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-women","tag-penn-state-university-press","tag-pennsylvania-state-university-press","tag-rebecca-reichmann","tag-rebecca-reichmann-tavares"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39702","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=39702"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52721,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39702\/revisions\/52721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}