{"id":46107,"date":"2016-03-20T01:12:37","date_gmt":"2016-03-20T01:12:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46107"},"modified":"2016-03-20T01:12:37","modified_gmt":"2016-03-20T01:12:37","slug":"whitening-and-whitewashing-postcolonial-brazil-is-not-an-egalitarian-rainbow-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46107","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWhitening\u201d and Whitewashing: Postcolonial Brazil is not an Egalitarian \u201cRainbow Nation\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/postcolonialist.com\/culture\/whitening-whitewashing-postcolonial-brazil-means-egalitarian-rainbow-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u201cWhitening\u201d and Whitewashing: Postcolonial Brazil is not an Egalitarian \u201cRainbow Nation\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/postcolonialist.com\" target=\"_blank\">The Postcolonialist<\/a><br \/>\n2014-03-04<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polsoz.fu-berlin.de\/en\/ethnologie\/personenliste\/lempp\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">Sarah Lempp<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/postcolonialist.com\/culture\/whitening-whitewashing-postcolonial-brazil-means-egalitarian-rainbow-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/postcolonialist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Brasileiros2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the 500th anniversary of its \u201cdiscovery\u201d by Portuguese sailor <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Pedro_%C3%81lvares_Cabral\" target=\"_blank\">Alvares de Cabral<\/a> in 2000, Brazil officially presented itself as a \u201crainbow nation\u201d without discrimination or racism; a place where people from various ethnicities live peacefully together. That the \u201cdiscovery\u201d caused slavery and death for millions of Indigenes and Africans was overlooked. The Portuguese colonization was seen as a \u201cnon-imperial act, an exercise of fraternity and intercultural and interethnic democracy\u201d, says Portuguese sociologist <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Boaventura_de_Sousa_Santos\" target=\"_blank\">Boaventura de Sousa Santos<\/a>.[1]<\/p>\n<p>The German author <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Stefan_Zweig\" target=\"_blank\">Stefan Zweig<\/a>, who fled to Brazil from <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nazi_Germany\" target=\"_blank\">Nazi Germany<\/a>, already considered Brazil a paradise characterized by hybridity and said in 1941 that Brazil \u201chas taken the racial problem, that unsettles our European world <em>ad absurdum<\/em> in the simplest manner: in plainly ignoring its validity.\u201d (translation S.L.)[2] According to Zweig, \u201cfor hundreds of years the Brazilian nation relies on the sole principle of free and unrestrained mixing, perfect equality of black and white, brown and yellow. (\u2026) There are no limits to colours, no boundaries, no supercilious hierarchies\u2026\u201d[3]<\/p>\n<p>Hence the image of Brazil as a tolerant, peaceful, \u201cmesti\u00e7o\u201d nation is not at all new. But it ignores then and still today the multifaceted forms of discrimination and specifically Brazilian shapes of racism&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/postcolonialist.com\/culture\/whitening-whitewashing-postcolonial-brazil-means-egalitarian-rainbow-nation\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cWhitening\u201d and Whitewashing: Postcolonial Brazil is not an Egalitarian \u201cRainbow Nation\u201d The Postcolonialist 2014-03-04 Sarah Lempp To commemorate the 500th anniversary of its \u201cdiscovery\u201d by Portuguese sailor Alvares de Cabral in 2000, Brazil officially presented itself as a \u201crainbow nation\u201d without discrimination or racism; a place where people from various ethnicities live peacefully together. That [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,83,21,2039,8],"tags":[23259,23258],"class_list":["post-46107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-brazil","category-latincarib","category-health-medicine","category-media-archive","tag-sarah-lempp","tag-the-postcolonialist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46107","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=46107"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46108,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46107\/revisions\/46108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}