{"id":44981,"date":"2016-01-05T19:08:54","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T19:08:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=44981"},"modified":"2016-01-06T02:57:35","modified_gmt":"2016-01-06T02:57:35","slug":"multiracial-identity-recognition-why-not-a-comparison-between-multiracialism-in-the-united-states-and-brazil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=44981","title":{"rendered":"Multiracial Identity Recognition &#8211; Why Not? A Comparison Between Multiracialism in the United States and Brazil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/hdl.handle.net\/10393\/33178\" target=\"_blank\">Multiracial Identity Recognition &#8211; Why Not? A Comparison Between Multiracialism in the United States and Brazil<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada<br \/>\n2015<br \/>\n143 pages<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ana Carolina Miguel Gouveia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Post-Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a LLM Master degree in Law Graduate Studies in Law<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Scholars debate the importance of multiracial identity recognition as the increasing number of self-identified multiracial individuals challenges traditional racial categories. Two reasons justify the count of multiracial individuals on censuses. One is the right to self-identification, derived from personal autonomy. The other is social: the category allows governments to accurately assess affirmative action programs\u2019 results and society\u2019s acceptance of multiracialism. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_race_theory\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Race Theory<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Critical_Mixed_Race_Studies\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Mixed-Race Studies<\/a> serve as basis for my analysis over multiracial identity formation and its recognition. Comparing multiracialism in America and Brazil, I verify that both countries are in different stages regarding categorization and social acceptance of multiracial identity. Neither uses multiracial data for social programs, though. I conclude that the growth of mixed-race individuals makes the identification of race-based social programs\u2019 beneficiaries difficult, which demands the use of diverse criteria. Moreover, official recognition can serve to improve the way society deals with race.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire thesis <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ruor.uottawa.ca\/bitstream\/10393\/33178\/1\/Gouveia_Ana_2015_thesis.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiracial Identity Recognition &#8211; Why Not? A Comparison Between Multiracialism in the United States and Brazil University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 2015 143 pages Ana Carolina Miguel Gouveia Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate and Post-Graduate Studies in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a LLM Master degree in Law Graduate Studies in Law [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[83,21,33,838,8,26,394,20],"tags":[22555,22556,22557],"class_list":["post-44981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-census","category-dissertations","category-media-archive","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-usa","tag-ana-carolina-miguel-gouveia","tag-ana-gouveia","tag-university-of-ottawa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44981","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=44981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44988,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44981\/revisions\/44988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}