{"id":49337,"date":"2016-10-08T00:54:42","date_gmt":"2016-10-08T00:54:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49337"},"modified":"2016-10-08T00:54:42","modified_gmt":"2016-10-08T00:54:42","slug":"tomas-santa-rosa-a-successful-mid-20th-century-painter-consoled-a-dark-skinned-peer-griping-about-discrimination-saying-that-he-too-used-to-be-black","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49337","title":{"rendered":"Tom\u00e1s Santa Rosa, a successful mid-20th-century painter, consoled a dark-skinned peer griping about discrimination, saying that he too \u201cused to be black\u201d."},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Both black and white Brazilians have long considered \u201cwhiteness\u201d something that can be striven towards. In 1912 <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jo%C3%A3o_Baptista_de_Lacerda\" target=\"_blank\">Jo\u00e3o Baptista de Lacerda<\/a>, a medic and advocate of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=34892\" target=\"_blank\">whitening<\/a>\u201d Brazil by encouraging European immigration, predicted that by 2012 the country would be 80% white, 3% mixed and 17% Amerindian; there would be no blacks. As Luciana Alves, who has researched race at the University of S\u00e3o Paulo, explains, an individual could \u201cwhiten his soul\u201d by working hard or getting rich. Tom\u00e1s Santa Rosa, a successful mid-20th-century painter, consoled a dark-skinned peer griping about discrimination, saying that he too \u201cused to be black\u201d.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49311\" target=\"_blank\">Slavery\u2019s legacies<\/a>,\u201d <em>The Economist<\/em>, September 10, 2016. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/international\/21706510-american-thinking-about-race-starting-influence-brazil-country-whose-population\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.economist.com\/news\/international\/21706510-american-thinking-about-race-starting-influence-brazil-country-whose-population<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Both black and white Brazilians have long considered \u201cwhiteness\u201d something that can be striven towards. In 1912 Jo\u00e3o Baptista de Lacerda, a medic and advocate of \u201cwhitening\u201d Brazil by encouraging European immigration, predicted that by 2012 the country would be 80% white, 3% mixed and 17% Amerindian; there would be no blacks. As Luciana Alves, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[25135,25137,6366,25151],"class_list":["post-49337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-excerpts","tag-joao-baptista-de-lacerda","tag-luciana-alves","tag-the-economist","tag-tomas-santa-rosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49337","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=49337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49338,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49337\/revisions\/49338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}