{"id":45968,"date":"2016-03-09T21:50:00","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T21:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=45968"},"modified":"2016-03-09T21:50:00","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T21:50:00","slug":"variations-on-racial-tension","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=45968","title":{"rendered":"Variations on racial tension"},"content":{"rendered":"

Variations on racial tension<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Harvard Gazette<\/a>
\n2016-02-26<\/p>\n

John Laidler<\/a><\/strong>, Harvard Correspondent<\/p>\n

For every nation, a different set of challenges, panelists say<\/em><\/p>\n

A panel discussion Wednesday highlighted striking contrasts in how nations perceive and grapple with racial inequality.<\/p>\n

Tracing evolving attitudes toward race and discrimination in Latin America<\/a>, Europe<\/a>, and the United States<\/a>, a trio of experts painted a picture of a multidimensional issue resistant to simple explanations or solutions.<\/p>\n

The panel was the second of four in a Weatherhead Center series on comparative inequality.<\/p>\n

Patrick Simon<\/a>, director of research at the National Institute of Demographic Studies<\/a> in France, said post-war Europe followed a conscious strategy to ban the use of racial terminologies to describe populations, a practice that persists.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are all aware that talking about race is not a straightforward situation in Europe,\u201d said Simon, currently a fellow at City University of New York. \u201cBasically, if you don\u2019t talk about race, the name itself is simply not there.\u201d<\/p>\n

Simon said the strategy was contradicted at first by continuing racial categorizing in European colonies. That ended with decolonization, but as citizens of those countries migrated to Europe, \u201crace is back in the picture,\u201d he said, \u201cin societies not prepared to address racial issues.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cNow that there is real racial diversity, this color-blind strategy finds its limits,\u201d Simon said, arguing that the approach \u2014 including resistance to directly including race in official data collection \u2014 hinders efforts to \u201cchange the dynamics of racializing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Alejandro de la Fuente<\/a>, Robert Woods Bliss Professor of Latin-American History at Harvard and director of the University\u2019s soon-to-launch Afro-Latin American Research Institute, said Latin-American nations have long promoted ideals of mestizaje<\/em><\/a>, or mixing of races, and racial democracy…<\/p>\n

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

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