{"id":41200,"date":"2015-05-23T20:24:56","date_gmt":"2015-05-23T20:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41200"},"modified":"2015-05-23T20:25:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-23T20:25:30","slug":"expats-find-brazils-reputation-for-race-blindness-is-undone-by-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41200","title":{"rendered":"Expats Find Brazil&#8217;s Reputation For Race-Blindness Is Undone By Reality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/parallels\/2015\/05\/22\/408813624\/expats-find-brazils-reputation-for-race-blindness-is-undone-by-reality\" target=\"_blank\">Expats Find Brazil&#8217;s Reputation For Race-Blindness Is Undone By Reality<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/parallels\/\" target=\"_blank\">Parallels: Many Stories, One World<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\">National Public Radio<\/a><br \/>\n2015-05-22<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lourdesgnavarro\" target=\"_blank\">Lourdes Garcia-Navarro<\/a><\/strong>, South America Correspondent<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/player\/embed\/408813624\/408827494\" width=\"100%\" height=\"290\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe>There is a joke among Brazilians that a Brazilian passport is the most coveted on the black market because no matter what your background \u2014 Asian, African or European \u2014 you can fit in here. But the reality is very different.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sitting in caf\u00e9 with two women who don&#8217;t want their names used because of the sensitivity of the topic. One is from the Caribbean; her husband is an expat executive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I was expecting to be the average-looking Brazilian; <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazil\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil<\/a> as you see on the media is not what I experienced when I arrived,&#8221; she tells me.<\/p>\n<p>As is the case for many people from the Caribbean basin, she self-identifies as multiracial. The island where she is from has a mixture of races and ethnicities, so she was excited to move to Brazil, which has been touted as one of the most racially harmonious places in the world.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When I arrived, I was shocked to realize there is a big difference between races and colors, and what is expected \u2014 what is your role, basically \u2014 based on your skin color,&#8221; she says&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/sections\/parallels\/2015\/05\/22\/408813624\/expats-find-brazils-reputation-for-race-blindness-is-undone-by-reality\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Download the story <a href=\"http:\/\/pd.npr.org\/anon.npr-mp3\/npr\/atc\/2015\/05\/20150522_atc_brazil-navigating_race.mp3?dl=1\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Read the transcript <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/transcript\/transcript.php?storyId=408813624\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Expats Find Brazil&#8217;s Reputation For Race-Blindness Is Undone By Reality Parallels: Many Stories, One World National Public Radio 2015-05-22 Lourdes Garcia-Navarro, South America Correspondent There is a joke among Brazilians that a Brazilian passport is the most coveted on the black market because no matter what your background \u2014 Asian, African or European \u2014 you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,2850,83,21,8,26,394],"tags":[20112,2309,2833],"class_list":["post-41200","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-audio","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","tag-lourdes-garcia-navarro","tag-national-public-radio","tag-npr"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41200","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=41200"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41200\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41200"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41200"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41200"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}