{"id":44041,"date":"2015-11-18T22:55:13","date_gmt":"2015-11-18T22:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44041"},"modified":"2015-11-18T22:55:13","modified_gmt":"2015-11-18T22:55:13","slug":"brazil-sees-a-rise-in-number-of-people-who-consider-themselves-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44041","title":{"rendered":"Brazil sees a rise in number of people who consider themselves black"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/elpais.com\/elpais\/2015\/11\/17\/inenglish\/1447761693_647036.html\" target=\"_blank\">Brazil sees a rise in number of people who consider themselves black<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elpais.com\" target=\"_blank\">El Pa\u00eds<\/a><br \/>\nMadrid, Spain<br \/>\n2015-11-17<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/marinarossi?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\">Marina Rossi<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<em>S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>English version by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/martingdelfin\" target=\"_blank\">Martin Delf\u00edn<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"552\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><a href=\"http:\/\/elpais.com\/elpais\/2015\/11\/17\/inenglish\/1447761693_647036.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ep01.epimg.net\/internacional\/imagenes\/2015\/11\/16\/actualidad\/1447709861_549398_1447710048_noticia_normal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Participants in the \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.gtzc.net.cn\/En\/news\/info1437966607.html\" target=\"_blank\">Curly Hair Pride March<\/a>,\u201d which was held in July in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/S%C3%A3o_Paulo\" target=\"_blank\">S\u00e3o Paulo<\/a>. \/ CORDON PRESS<\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<ul>\n<li>Sociologists say changes in attitudes have made people more open about their origins<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/internacional.elpais.com\/internacional\/2015\/11\/16\/actualidad\/1447709861_549398.html\" target=\"_blank\">M\u00e1s brasile\u00f1os se identifican como negros y mulatos<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More and more Brazilians say they are black or multiracial when asked to describe their race, a new study reveals.<\/p>\n<p>In a survey taken by the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brazilian_Institute_of_Geography_and_Statistics\" target=\"_blank\">Brazilian Geographical and Statistics Institute<\/a> (IBGE) last year, 53% of Brazilians classified themselves as either being black or multiracial while, 45.5% considered themselves white.<\/p>\n<p>In the same National Household Survey taken 10 years earlier, 51.2% of Brazilians polled said they were white while 47.9% replied with black or multiracial&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;Katia Regis, a coordinator for African and Afro-Brazilian studies, believes that the increases among the population who identify themselves as black can be attributed to long battles waged by the country\u2019s black organizations, as well as more access to higher levels of education&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/elpais.com\/elpais\/2015\/11\/17\/inenglish\/1447761693_647036.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brazil sees a rise in number of people who consider themselves black El Pa\u00eds Madrid, Spain 2015-11-17 Marina Rossi S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil English version by Martin Delf\u00edn. Participants in the \u201cCurly Hair Pride March,\u201d which was held in July in S\u00e3o Paulo. \/ CORDON PRESS Sociologists say changes in attitudes have made people more open [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,33,8,394],"tags":[21932,21930,21926,21931,21929,21933,21927,21928],"class_list":["post-44041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-census","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","tag-adriana-beringuy","tag-brazilian-geographical-and-statistics-institute","tag-el-pais","tag-ibge","tag-katia-regis","tag-maria-da-neves","tag-marina-rossi","tag-martin-delfin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041","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=44041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44042,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44041\/revisions\/44042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}